Narrative ethics

Narrative ethics / edited by Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn.

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...

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Other Authors: Lothe, Jakob (Editor), Hawthorn, Jeremy (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.
Series:Value inquiry book series ; v. 267.
Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics.
Subjects:
Ethics in literature > Congresses.
Literature and morals > Congresses.
Narration (Rhetoric) > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses.
Fiction > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Ethics in literature
Fiction > Moral and ethical aspects
Literature and morals
Narration (Rhetoric) > Moral and ethical aspects
Erzählforschung
Ethik
Literatur
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of Contents:
  • 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 NovelTHIRTEEN The Grieving Mind in Words and Images; FOURTEEN Travels Across Ethical Borders: Anonymity and Space inNadine Gordimer's The Ultimate Safari
  • FIFTEEN Narrative Ethics in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; SIXTEEN The Palpable Lolita: Form and Affect from the Perspectiveof Poetics; SEVENTEEN The Age of Scientific Racism: Internal Focalization and Narrative Ethics in Toni Morrison's Beloved; WORKS CITED; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; NAME INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.

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