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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... interruption in an- other way - language itself as nondialectical , as separation , cleft , gap : not " the pause that permits exchange , but [ rather ] the waiting that measures an infinite distance . ” Interruption , in this sense ...
... interruption , " the first that comes to mind will probably not be " dissemination " -the language of textuality that never stops - but rather something closer to “ disarticulation ” —the language of expression broken up or voided from ...
... interruption I began with . What we find in Bakhtin is interruption on the level of the Saying : a call for stories which are themselves interrupted in turn . " Every word is directed toward an answer and cannot escape the profound ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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