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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... speak- " What you say clears things up " -and Elizabeth Willard's violently Oedipal fantasy of punishing the speech- forcer both depend on the press of speech , words either imposed or drawn out . Both parents trap George , and remain ...
... speak . As he observes , " the moral issues of The Monster as well as its brutal account of race do not become apparent until we escape the tyranny of the eye " ( 177 ) . " Henry's face showed like a reflector " ( The Monster , 129 ) ...
... speak , the text forces him to become Levinas ' " political man " by de- fault : his voice may wield a " curious power " but it remains entirely contained , muffled , by the narrator's . The face speaks , ethically speak- ing , but it ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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