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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... desire and desire alone - desire enacted , transposed , or refused ; even the desire for closure figures a sublimation of erotic desire . Any narrative act in this view is necessarily an act of seduction.49 Any narrative act can be , of ...
... desire can more meaningfully describe the workings of Lord Jim than can the dynamics of transference and narrative desire . And thus a second level of recognition - the interactive structures of encounter in vision and speech - is ...
... desire . René Girard's theory of mimetic desire in Deceit , Desire , and the Novel : Self and Other in Literary Structure , trans . Yvonne Freccero ( Balti- more : Johns Hopkins University Press , 1986 ) , also shows how narrative ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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