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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... encounter - when faces look out onto other faces which return their gaze . As Levinas puts it , " Vision moves into grasp . Vision opens upon a perspective , upon a horizon , and describes a traversable distance , invites the hand to ...
... encounter ; such contact is always a “ traumatism of astonishment . ” If Conrad explores the pathos of the long journey to " the final utter- ance , " Anderson investigates its abbreviation - the pathos of epiphany . Marlow's fleeting ...
... encounter which the story compulsively repeats , the passage I quoted above being one such instance and the conversation between Trescott and Judge Hagen- thorpe in section 11 being a more damning scene of judgment because it involves ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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