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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... plot . " Her imaginative life was the life in which she spent most of her time " ( 178 ) , the narrator tells us . Since the characters who people her fictional world come to her already impersonated ( they mask them- selves behind ...
... plot of Dickens ' novel as deter- mining all other narrative features , I treat its proliferation as in some way a response to the interplay of voices ; the telling or the hoarding of secrets serves as the glue which binds person to ...
... Plot , 262 . 20. Conrad continually recycled plots and characters . Lord Jim cannibalizes elements from Alymer's ... plot a " plot . " 23. See Roland Barthes , The Pleasure of the Text ( New York : Hill and Wang , 1975 ) , and Jacques ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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