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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... force by being sedimented over time in Conrad's novel , narrative acts acquire ethical force in Ander- son's novel because of their brevity and , for the most part , unrepeata- bility . Aestheticizing Bakhtin's notion of non literary ...
... Force " being the operative word in this text , one con- fronts the profound slippage of language into violence , the force , in other words , behind illocutionary force . Just as vzhivanie ( or rather the attempt at it ) can often ...
... Force Is Ethics In Coercion to Speak , Aaron Fogel speculates that the prototype for dialogue derives not from some " ideal speech situation , " but in fact from a scene , as in Sophocles ' Oedipus Tyrannus , of speech - forcing , “ a ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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