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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... Telling Others , " my title , should consequently be understood as fanning out in several directions at once : narration to others , narration about others , and narrating persons , as it were , " in the indicative " -simultaneously ...
... telling , a continuum of " looking " arcs through the text . Again , Tulkinghorn legislates . His scrutiny and incessant eyeing of Lady Dedlock initiates a pattern of one - sided specularity , some of it harmless , like Jarndyce's ...
... telling and listening . Bucket , as it were , gathers up the disparate energies of inner- persuasive discourse and forges a performative tale which disenchants the world of clandestine secrets and neutralizes the dangerous lure of ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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