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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... story . Pure Story Like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg , Ohio stands as representative of a certain cultural moment in literary history.18 Its topic , form , and closeness to Anderson's own personal ...
... story that the frame breaks , and Enoch performs outside the story exactly what he relates had occurred inside it , the same ambivalence , the same retraction , the identical conflict . That is , the narrative pressure which he ...
... story's depth structure of ethics keeps entangled . I propose an alternative figure for reading the text : habitation / in- habitation , which focuses particular attention on the story's mapping of author's , readers ' , and characters ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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