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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... turn life into , the kind of lives that people turn stories into . Philip Roth , The Counterlife 1 Opening Story THE ANCIENT MARINER's narrative begins , once 1 Narrative as Ethics.
... turn for its interlocutors . The " grasping " calls to mind not only Jim's need for recognition ( his telling as a means for counting , as Stanley Cavell might say ) , but Marlow's reciprocal desire to capture Jim and his story by more ...
... turn , means that one is effectively " solved , " one's story is secured.11 The status of Jim's Britishness - his " membership " -forms a common burden for Marlow , Brierly , Chester , and even Cornelius and Gentle- man Brown . It ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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