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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... represents materially the attempted transposition of aesthetic and intersubjective values . It represents the division be- tween them as finally secured — again , economically , in the form of a bargain . And it represents the ...
... represents a domain not merely of holeness but of wholeness , “ an achieved relationality of black community in which desire recollects experience . ” 26 Sleep , as in Proust or Bunyan , would seem to perform a function very similar to ...
... represents part of the text's racism , as it dissolves self - standing ethical valuation into attached surface value on the model of a black man's identity dissolving with his face . Along with Henry , one cannot escape the story's ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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