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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... functions from one scene to the next as both cipher and decoder , text and commentary , object and means of recognition , a presence behind shadows or clouds and the force that shines through them . This image , too , pervades the text ...
... function.22 And like the tribunal ( but specifically in terms of a dynamics of reading ) , it too fails to satisfy ... functions similarly , though its heu- ristic value should be thought of as ethical rather than logical . And thus ...
... function as instrumentalities , exten- sions of the steering wheel , broom , or telegraph that they manipulate.49 Discursively speaking , the girl's function bears comparison with Ro- man Jakobson's communications model : channel ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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