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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... secrets " which entreat careful revelation , not easy disclosure . And thus in this final chapter I return to the tie between narrational and hermeneutic ethics which I traced in my initial readings of Col- eridge and Anderson ...
... secrets hoarded and dispensed within the story relative to the two major narrational tracks which pass them on and control their flow . Tellings , Lookings Above , I described Esther's manner of confiding secrets as a child as ...
... secrets . As Braithwaite himself frames this idea , " If the sweetest moment in life is a visit to a brothel which ... secrets , however carefully hedged , are always open secrets.39 The anal- ogy between the book unwritten and the life ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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