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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... textual interpretation , its relevance for narrative theory un- dermined only by the advent of formalist and poststructuralist approaches and their sustained repudiation of normative , extra - linguis- tic categories . ( The cottage ...
... textual procedures . But “ Loneliness " exactly concerns the deso- lation which attaches to the " purely " textual or acoustical ( sound sig- nifying a kind of notation ) . A literary character's voice imitates the intonation of spoken ...
... textual mirroring , " as Chambers calls it , which takes two forms : " narrational embeddings " ( dramati- zations of narrative communication within the story , as in Lord Jim ) and " figural embeddings " ( tropes of communication like ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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