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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... never entirely eludes Juliana : “ You talk as if you were a tailor ” ( 70 ) . Indeed , as far as securing Aspern's papers goes - his only aim in " inhabiting " the Bordereaus ― he never amounts to anything more than a boarder in ...
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... never has to be written , which is never sullied with a definite shape , which never needs to be exposed to a less loving gaze than that of its author " ( 116 ) . And yet , obviously , this is wishful thinking ; the best , easiest , and ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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