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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... remains the one that governs the reader's interpretive response . Thus the narrative logic here re- quires that after Enoch finishes the story and explains that " she took all my people away . They went out through the door after her ...
... Remains of the Day ( though the lesson of trespass each text communicates is identical ) . If Stevens ' narrative works through the implications of accident as interruption and interruption as accident , Braithwaite's rehearses an ...
... remains irrevocably absent to him . In the expanded version of this poem included in the first book of The Excursion , three separate acts of rising mimetically reproduce one another at each of the story's three diegetic levels ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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