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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... mean a systematic arrangement of checks and balances ; rather it means the performance of the singular claims nar- rative acts elicit . These claims establish their authority and their mean- ing in such performances , just as the ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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