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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... light , the dimmer it becomes - not because of any internal self - occlu- sion , but as a response to the readers ' proximity . To " get " someone's story in this regard - as George Willard uncriti- cally does is analogous to the belief ...
... light : " Perhaps this is the real cause of my interest in his fate . I don't know whether it was exactly fair to him to remember the incident which had given a new direction to his life , but at that very moment I remembered very ...
... Light My reading of Crane ends with a quotation from Ellison's Invisible Man , a work which itself ends on an explicit albeit ambivalent note of " social responsibility , " of release from the shadows and a return to history . But the ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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