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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... example , un- duly generalizes the erotic component in narrative ( and in reading ) to the act itself . Storytelling becomes a contract relation fueled by desire and desire alone - desire enacted , transposed , or refused ; even the ...
... example without paying sufficient attention to formal particulars.63 But in " performing the text " ( as I called it in Chapter 1 ) , don't readers merely carry out the actions / messages which the text frames as examples ? Doesn't ...
... example , the following examples of uncanny intertext . Wright describes Bigger's capture by the police in the following way : " Round him surged a sea of noise . He opened his eyes a little and saw an array of faces , white and looming ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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