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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... surface in other places " ( AN , 336 ) . Along with Miller , I too see the necessity of " something both hidden and revealed " in James's image , a play of snow and footprints.42 But instead of seeing it as deconstructive différance ...
... surface , and the surface was somehow Captain Everard's wonder- ful face . Deep down in his eyes was a picture , a scene - a great place like a chamber of justice , where , before a watching crowd , a poor girl , exposed but heroic ...
... surface in order to disclose the open secret which resides beneath , The Remains of the Day , as Autobiography , obediently attends a surface with tactful subservience , in order to maintain the pretense that surface is all there really ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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