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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... stands before such a play , stands before its characters ' brute separateness - not to contemplate them as " examples " but to acknowledge them as being , standing , and suffering apart . Obviously , " exemplarity " in Lear can mean the ...
... stands for the economic basis for the narrator's presence at the Villa . The narra- tor pays exorbitantly for his lodgings , the money being a compensatory legacy for Tita . Juliana precisely answers the narrator's personal and social ...
... stands closer to the spirit of Levinasian ethics . It also stands closer to the spirit of the three pieces of fiction I treat in this chapter . To introduce each one briefly : 1. Stephen Crane's The Monster , a text which lies midway ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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