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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... language exhibits the greatest degree of ideological sophistication when it drives a wedge between subjectivity and lan- guage , when it demonstrates their absolute incompatibility . Implicitly , like the other nondialectical ...
... language . But how can this be when , as " grotesques , " persons have already been converted into facts of language , when like Alice Hineman in “ Adventure , " they have only words to go on . In Totality and Infinity , Levinas ...
... language , we feel a coziness , a famili- arity , a shelter in the language we call our own , in which we think we are not alienated . What the translation reveals is that this alienation is strongest in our relation to our own language ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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