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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... readers by drawing them inside its own circle ? The last " event , " in the form of a question , seems to solicit a possible response . Are readers thus being solicited ? Does an aesthetic problem shade into an ethical problematic when ...
... readers , Melville's goes on whispering in front of both its readers and its " singularly undistrustful " Captain . And thus its po- litical and ethical questions , I will argue , center ultimately on how auriculate are its readers ...
... readers , that Stevens ' waiting in The Remains of the Day , as Sartre says of Raskolnikov , be- comes in some way readers ' own . I say peculiar , because this idea may seem to imply a " borrowing " of consciousness from book to reader ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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