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Narrative Ethics.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (352 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674041462
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Narrative EthicsLOC classification:
  • PN49
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Narrative as Ethics -- 2. Toward a Narrative Ethics -- 3. We Die in a Last Word: Conrad's Lord Jim and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio -- 4. Lessons of (for) the Master: Short Fiction -- 5. Creating the Uncreated Features of His Face: Monstration in Crane, Melville, and Wright -- 6. Telling Others: Secrecy and Recognition in Dickens, Barnes, and Ishiguro -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: In the wake of deconstruction and criticism focusing on difference, Newton makes a case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two, he explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Narrative as Ethics -- 2. Toward a Narrative Ethics -- 3. We Die in a Last Word: Conrad's Lord Jim and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio -- 4. Lessons of (for) the Master: Short Fiction -- 5. Creating the Uncreated Features of His Face: Monstration in Crane, Melville, and Wright -- 6. Telling Others: Secrecy and Recognition in Dickens, Barnes, and Ishiguro -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

In the wake of deconstruction and criticism focusing on difference, Newton makes a case for understanding narrative as ethics. Assuming an intrinsic and necessary connection between the two, he explores the ethical consequences of telling stories and fictionalizing character, and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader.

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