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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... voice ring false even in his moments of plangent reverie . ( One obvious way to specify the reader's role in The Aspern Papers ' economy of representation , then , would emphasize the way in which the narrator coaxes and inhabits our ...
... voice share the identical problematic of secrecy , the same hedge around recognition , which Mill's Autobiography illumines in , as it were , half light . And since I am multiplying voices here , let me articulate the hinge between Mill ...
... voice quite distinct from the unconsciously inhabited quality which voice assumes in The Remains of the Day ( though the lesson of trespass each text communicates is identical ) . If Stevens ' narrative works through the implications of ...
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Toward a Narrative Ethics | 35 |
Conrads Lord Jim | 71 |
Short Fiction | 125 |
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