Narrative ethics / edited by Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lothe, Jakob.

Hawthorn, Jeremy.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 267.

Value inquiry book series ; volume 267

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics in literature.

Fiction--Moral and ethical aspects.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

part one. Theory

part two. Ethics and reading

part three. Ethical responsibility of the author

part four. Textual studies.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 19, 2013).

ISBN:

94-012-0982-0

OCLC:

868318953

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401209823 DOI