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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... looking " arcs through the text . Again , Tulkinghorn legislates . His scrutiny and incessant eyeing of Lady Dedlock initiates a pattern of one - sided specularity , some of it harmless , like Jarndyce's covert spying on Esther in ...
... Looking Away " I'm saying that you trust the mystifier more if you know that he's deliberately choosing not to be ... looking away in his portraits and photographs . He's looking away so that you can't catch his eye : he's also looking ...
... looking and looking away . Against or rather within this measured amble appears a third rhythm — not of time , however , but of appearance : the coded text of dignity , service , and concentrated attention which invites us to look ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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