Towards The Ethics Of Form In Fiction

Author : Leona Toker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814252550
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction written by Leona Toker and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and critics have long recognized the need for ethical criticism to address not only the idea-content but also the morphological aspects of narrative, yet the search continues for ways to study the ethics of narrative form. In Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction: Narratives of Cultural Remission, Leona Toker suggests a method of linking formal features of narratives with the types of moral vision that they represent.Toker is especially interested in cultural remissions such as the carnivalesque-that is, the inverting of standard cultural hierarchies or the blurring of boundaries between normally separated social groups, actors and audiences, self and other. She argues that cultural remissions have the potential not simply to provide a break from the determinacies of our quotidian existence but also to return us to that existence with some alteration of our perceptions, beliefs, and values. Toker contends that the ethical consequences of reading fiction result from features of its aesthetics, particularly what she calls, following the semiotician Louis Hjemslev, "the form of the content"-the patterns arising from the artistic deployment of narrative details. In addition to addressing the carnivalesque discourse of Bakhtin as well as the theory of oppositionality developed by de Certeau and Chambers, she puts theory into practice through detailed analyses of canonical texts by Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Hawthorne, Dickens, Conrad, Joyce, and other writers.

Author : Kathryn Lachman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781380309
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Borrowed Forms written by Kathryn Lachman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering, interdisciplinary study of how transnational novelists and critics use music as a critical device to structure narrative and to model ethical relations.

Author : Greta Matzner-Gore
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810141971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form written by Greta Matzner-Gore and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three questions of novelistic form preoccupied Fyodor Dostoevsky throughout his career: how to build suspense, how to end a narrative effectively, and how to distribute attention among major and minor characters. For Dostoevsky, these were much more than practical questions about novelistic craft; they were ethical questions as well. Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form traces Dostoevsky’s indefatigable investigations into the ethical implications of his own formal choices. Drawing on his drafts, notebooks, and writings on aesthetics, Greta Matzner-Gore argues that Dostoevsky wove the moral and formal questions that obsessed him into the fabric of his last three novels: Demons, The Adolescent, and The Brothers Karamazov. In so doing, he anticipated some of the most pressing debates taking place in the study of narrative ethics today.

Author : Lykke Guanio-Uluru
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137469692
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature written by Lykke Guanio-Uluru and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature: Tolkien, Rowling and Meyer by Lykke Guanio-Uluru examines formal and ethical aspects of The Lord of the Rings , Harry Potter and the Twilight series in order to discover what best-selling fantasy texts can tell us about the values of contemporary Western culture.

Author : Grace Whistler
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030377563
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camus' Literary Ethics written by Grace Whistler and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to establish the relevance of Albert Camus’ philosophy and literature to contemporary ethics. By examining Camus’ innovative methods of approaching moral problems, Whistler demonstrates that Camus’ work has much to offer the world of ethics— Camus does philosophy differently, and the insights his methodologies offer could prove invaluable in both ethical theory and practice. Camus sees lived experience and emotion as ineliminable in ethics, and thus he chooses literary methods of communicating moral problems in an attempt to draw positively on these aspects of human morality. Using case studies of Camus’ specific literary methods, including dialogue, myth, mime and syntax, Whistler pinpoints the efficacy of each of Camus’ attempts to flesh-out moral problems, and thus shows just how much contemporary ethics could benefit from such a diversification in method.

Author : Jean Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814271339
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction written by Jean Mills and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dorothy J. Hale
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614077
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Novel and the New Ethics written by Dorothy J. Hale and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a generation of contemporary Anglo-American novelists, the question "Why write?" has been answered with a renewed will to believe in the ethical value of literature. Dissatisfied with postmodernist parody and pastiche, a broad array of novelist-critics—including J.M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Gish Jen, Ian McEwan, and Jonathan Franzen—champion the novel as the literary genre most qualified to illuminate individual ethical action and decision-making within complex and diverse social worlds. Key to this contemporary vision of the novel's ethical power is the task of knowing and being responsible to people different from oneself, and so thoroughly have contemporary novelists devoted themselves to the ethics of otherness, that this ethics frequently sets the terms for plot, characterization, and theme. In The Novel and the New Ethics, literary critic Dorothy J. Hale investigates how the contemporary emphasis on literature's social relevance sparks a new ethical description of the novel's social value that is in fact rooted in the modernist notion of narrative form. This "new" ethics of the contemporary moment has its origin in the "new" idea of novelistic form that Henry James inaugurated and which was consolidated through the modernist narrative experiments and was developed over the course of the twentieth century. In Hale's reading, the art of the novel becomes defined with increasing explicitness as an aesthetics of alterity made visible as a formalist ethics. In fact, it is this commitment to otherness as a narrative act which has conferred on the genre an artistic intensity and richness that extends to the novel's every word.

Author : Leona Toker
Publisher : Theory and Interpretation of N
ISBN 13 : 9780814211229
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction written by Leona Toker and published by Theory and Interpretation of N. This book was released on 2010 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul John Eakin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801488337
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Life Writing written by Paul John Eakin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our lives are increasingly on display in public, but the ethical issues involved in presenting such revelations remain largely unexamined. How can life writing do good, and how can it cause harm? The eleven essays here explore such questions.

Author : Matthew Sussman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832946
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction written by Matthew Sussman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.