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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... intersubjectivity the road not taken by the " discourse of modernity , " that line of thought which stretches from Hegel through poststructuralism . In analytic philoso- phy , the intersubjective became either a strictly epistemological ...
... intersubjective horizons , horizons which surround textual as well as human encounter . In my triangulation of Levinas - Cavell - Bakhtin , it is Bakhtin who explicitly links these insights with narrativity . Toward that goal , he sees ...
... intersubjective encounter , rather than acting as its guarantor , the placing oneself in hostage - for- another which Levinas in his later work describes as an intersubjective norm . In a famous parable by one of James's American ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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