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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... presence and the present of others , while it simultaneously repudiates our own presence , insofar as the acknowledgment we owe Lear , Cordelia , Edgar , and Gloucester cannot be completed . One of the things that artworks do , then ...
... presence whereby former lovers are presumed to " channel " the indwelling spirit of the now dead poet . This is a sorry sort of vzhivanie . As a votary trying to vault himself into his deity's innermost precincts , the narrator succumbs ...
... presence of the face , the infinity of the other , is a . . . presence of the third party ( that is , the whole of humanity which looks at us ) ” ( TI , 213 ) . Human commu- nity is thus a symmetry built around an asymmetry ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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