Narrative ethics

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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) for…

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

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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 (xii, 313 pages) : : color illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789401209823, 9401209820, 1306167620, 9781306167628
oclc:ocn868318953
LC Classification:PN49
Dewey Decimal:801

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; EDITORIAL FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; Part One: THEORY; ONE Should We Read or Teach Literature Now?; TWO Narratology, Ethical Turns, Circularities, and a Meta-EthicalWay Out; THREE Ethics, the Diachronization of Narratology, and the Margins of Unreliable Narration; Part Two: ETHICS AND READING; FOUR The Problem of Narratives in the Bible: Moral Issues and Suggested Reading Strategies; FIVE Reading Fiction: Voyeurism without Shame?; SIX An Ethics of Reading Sophisticated Narratives: TheExample of J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello.

SEVEN Authority, Reliability, and the Challenge of Reading: TheNarrative Ethics of Jonathan Littell's The Kindly OnesPart Three: ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AUTHOR; EIGHT Ethical Force of Fictionalization in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen; NINE The Ethics of Literary Borrowing: Risks and Rewards; TEN Twain, Huck, Jim, and Us: Or, the Ethics of Progression inHuckleberry Finn; ELEVEN ""Anything But a Simpleton"": The Ethics of RepresentingIntellectual Disability in Tarjei Vesaas's The Birds; Part Four: TEXTUAL STUDIES.

TWELVE Adam Smith Meets the Devil: Demonic Pacts and MoralSentiments in the Gothic NovelTH…

Subjects

Conference papers and proceedings Erzählforschung Ethics in literature Ethics in literature -- Congresses Ethik Fiction -- Congresses. -- Moral and eth… Fiction -- Moral and ethical aspects LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory Literatur 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