Narrative ethics

by Hawthorn, Jeremy Lothe, Jakob

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Title Statements

Full title :Narrative ethics / edited by Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn.

Summary

While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W.H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views and, responding in different ways to the "ethical turn" in narrative theory, explore the varied ways in which narratives encourage readers to ponder matters of right and wrong. All work from the premise that the analysis of narrative ethics needs to be linked to a sensitivity to esthetic (narrative) form. The ethical issues are accordingly located on different levels. Some are clearly presented as thematic concerns within the text(s) considered, while others emerge through (or are generated by) the presentation of character and event by means of particular narrative techniques. The objects of analysis include such well-known or canonical texts as Biblical Old Testament stories, Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones, Ann Radcliffe's The Italian and Matthew Lewis's The Monk . Others concentrate on less-well-known texts written in languages other than English. There are also contributions that investigate theoretical issues in relation to a range of different examples

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rodopi
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

"The chapters of this volume are revised versions of papers given at an international conference on narrative theory and analysis arranged at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Oslo, 19-20 November 2010"--Preface

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9401209820, 9789401209823
DOI:10.1163/9789401209823
oclc:on1162436021
LC Classification:PN49
Dewey Decimal:830.9

Subjects

Conference papers and proceedings Ethics in literature Ethics in literature -- Congresses Fiction -- Congresses. -- Moral and eth… Fiction -- Moral and ethical aspects Literature and morals Literature and morals -- Congresses Littérature et morale -- Congrès Morale dans la littérature -- Congrès Narration -- Congrès. -- Aspect moral Narration (Rhetoric) -- Congresses. -- … Narration (Rhetoric) -- Moral and ethic… Roman -- Congrès. -- Aspect moral