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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... humans at all , [ not ] in any sense human " ( RT , 87 ) . As both a theory of language and a moral position , this attitude simply demands a reckoning , especially since it contests the very position I wish to hold . In the second ...
... human encounter . In my triangulation of Levinas - Cavell - Bakhtin , it is Bakhtin who explicitly links these insights with narrativity . Toward that goal , he sees one's physical singularity in time / space ( one's ir - re - place ...
... human relatedness " which requires " the acceptance of repetition . " Othello cannot accept either , and thus what a " contract model ” ( for marriage as well as for narrative ) illustrates is Othello's failure to ap- proximate a norm ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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