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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... perhaps the profoundest ethical dilemma which reading fiction poses is just the fact of solitude , that it is accomplished alone , forcing one's own single self against and into the world ( s ) of fictional others . Paradoxically , the ...
... perhaps passes judgment on the obsolescence of Victorian character . Perhaps " The Real Thing " allegorizes just this transition from a class - restrictive no- tion of characters who answer to a governing moral typology to one more ...
... perhaps , but also a transparent indictment of authorial attitude . ) What's wanted here , as I noted in connection with Lord Jim , is signification in its Levinasian sense , “ the signification of the face break- ing through all form ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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