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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... representation cannot be explained without reference to ethical considerations of agency ; “ functions ” and “ roles ” liquidate the substantial self . Since I have reintroduced here two of the three axes upon which my own study is ...
... representation as “ a matter for the police " ( Christo- pher Prendergast's apt phrase ) , 47 Stephen Crane's story The Monster , transforms that politicization into cultural decisions about what will constitute recognition and who will ...
... representation itself , the power of images and the shadows they can cast . From time to time , aesthetic theory focuses on the redemptive and humanizing aspects of such power ; Crocean aesthetics and Maurice Merleau - Ponty's essays on ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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