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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... response by inducing identificatory states of compassion and pity ; a novelistic practice that anticipates the Geneva School's reader - response theory of borrowed consciousness , such texts predicated their moral effects on a Humean or ...
... response . Are readers thus being solicited ? Does an aesthetic problem shade into an ethical problematic when it invites readers to participate in its solution ? If so , then the function of this final question would roughly parallel ...
... response , dispensa- tion — undergirds even ordinary narrative give - and - take , I would argue ; it certainly does so with a vengeance in Winesburg , whatever the mode of solicitation , whatever the nature of response . And yet the ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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