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Title

Narrative ethics / edited by Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn.

Publication

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Lothe, Jakob
• Hawthorn, Jeremy

Description

xii, 313 pages : color illustrations; 22 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; volume 267. Philosophy, literature, and politics

Uniform Title

• Value inquiry book series v. 267.
• Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics

Subject

• Ethics in literature > Congresses
• Literature and morals > Congresses
• Narration (Rhetoric) > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses
• Fiction > Moral and ethical aspects > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part One: Theory -- Part Two: Ethics and reading -- Part Three: Ethical responsibility of the author -- Part Four: Textual studies.

ISBN

• 9789042037281 (pbk.)
• 9042037288 (pbk.)
• 9789401209823 (online) (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 858812104
• SCSB-11765137

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library