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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... recognition , where the first level gradually becomes canceled out and superseded by the second . Thus the maritime inquest at the beginning of the text follows the logic of classical anagnorisis in its drive to unmask the threat of ...
... recognition which I discuss , as it were , openly here . In the buried lives and " secret treasons of the world " unearthed in Lord Jim , Winesburg , Ohio , and In the Cage ; in the differing modes of deception exposed in " The Real ...
... recognition of that fact , like our recognition of Stevens ' momentary vacation from the haven of self , is our way of leavening sympathy with the necessary irony that separates art from life . It is how we track the pathos and the ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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