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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... narrative ethics . The Sense of Narrative Ethics Why this phrase ? Each of the two elements of " narrative ethics " calls up a welter of implications . And their linkage within a single phrase might therefore threaten to swell a ...
... narrative forms of ordinary life . " 40 One need not dismiss this as so much naive reflectionism , since it merely suggests a continuous relationship between everyday narrative forms and those of literary texts . The question is ...
... narrative analysis this way have an extraordinarily ironic consequence : willy - nilly , formalist / structuralist theories of narrative incur an ethical responsibility precisely because they eschew it . To recall Godzich once more , it ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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