Narrative EthicsHarvard University Press, 1995 - 335 strani The ethics of literature, formalists have insisted, resides in the moral quality of a character, a story, perhaps the relation between author and reader. But in the wake of deconstruction and various forms of criticism focusing on difference, the ethical question has been freshly negotiated by literary studies, and to this approach Adam Newton brings a startling new thrust. His book makes a compelling case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two, Newton explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader in the process. He treats these relations as defining properties of prose fiction, of particular import in nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts. |
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... deconstruction make its objections . The pathos ✓ of deconstruction is that it remains continuous with , not transverse to , the tyranny of self - knowing . The bad faith of deconstruction is that it cannot admit this . Narratology If ...
... deconstruction's hands made of it " a tragic critical practice - tragic because at once inescapable and doomed to alternate , without the possibility of totalization , between its depend- ent constituents . " 32 Those constituents are ...
... deconstruction , nar- rative ethics assumes that literary texts are perfectly capable of un - say- ing themselves , that is , being interrupted from within . What is linguistic rupture for deconstruction , however , is prima facie ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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