Towards The Ethics Of Form In Fiction

Author : Leona Toker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
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Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814252559

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Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction by Leona Toker Pdf

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 : Lykke Guanio-Uluru
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137469694

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Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature by Lykke Guanio-Uluru Pdf

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 : Kathryn Lachman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781781380307

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Borrowed Forms by Kathryn Lachman Pdf

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
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810141973

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Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form by Greta Matzner-Gore Pdf

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 : Russell Blackford
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319616858

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Science Fiction and the Moral Imagination by Russell Blackford Pdf

In this highly original book, Russell Blackford discusses the intersection of science fiction and humanity’s moral imagination. With the rise of science and technology in the 19th century, and our continually improving understanding of the cosmos, writers and thinkers soon began to imagine futures greatly different from the present. Science fiction was born out of the realization that future technoscientific advances could dramatically change the world. Along with the developments described in modern science fiction - space societies, conscious machines, and upgraded human bodies, to name but a few - come a new set of ethical challenges and new forms of ethics. Blackford identifies these issues and their reflection in science fiction. His fascinating book will appeal to anyone with an interest in philosophy or science fiction, or in how they interact. “This is a seasoned, balanced analysis of a major issue in our thinking about the future, seen through the lens of science fiction, a central art of our time. Everyone from humanists to technologists should study these ideas and examples. Blackford’s book is wise and savvy, and a delight to read as well.” Greg Benford, author of Timescape.

Author : Jean Mills,Leona Toker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Ethics in literature
ISBN : 0814271332

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Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction by Jean Mills,Leona Toker Pdf

Author : Leona Toker
Publisher : Theory and Interpretation of N
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814211224

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Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction by Leona Toker Pdf

Author : Lykke Guanio-Uluru
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137469694

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Ethics and Form in Fantasy Literature by Lykke Guanio-Uluru Pdf

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 : Wayne C. Booth
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520062108

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The Company We Keep by Wayne C. Booth Pdf

"Bibliography of ethical criticism": p. 505-534. Presents arguments for the relocation of ethics to the center of literature, examining periods, genres, and particular works.

Author : Matthew Sussman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108832946

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Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction by Matthew Sussman Pdf

Offers a deep history of style in theory and practice that transforms our understanding of style in the novel.

Author : Howard Harris,Michael Schwartz
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783509485

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The Contribution of Fiction to Organizational Ethics by Howard Harris,Michael Schwartz Pdf

Stories are essential to any organization. They help organizations define who they are, what they do, and how they do it. In this issue we consider how fiction has questioned the moral rules, and examined such situations, and in doing so how it has contributed to our understanding of organizational ethics.

Author : Rüdiger Heinze
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3825885364

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Ethics of Literary Forms in Contemporary American Literature by Rüdiger Heinze Pdf

This work links ethics and the formal arrangement of literary texts. It shows that specific formal techniques and devices and the overall form of literary texts always have an ethical dimension and beg certain ethical questions. Covering the three main genres of narrative, drama and poetry, the discussion addresses aspects of syntax, line breaks, mise-en-scene and narrative situation as well as the table of contents, list of characters and chapter structure in six texts by contemporary American authors (Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, John Ashbery and Jorie Graham).

Author : Rachel Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136156267

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Narrative Hospitality in Late Victorian Fiction by Rachel Hollander Pdf

Bringing together poststructuralist ethical theory with late Victorian debates about the morality of literature, this book reconsiders the ways in which novels engender an ethical orientation or response in their readers, explaining how the intersections of nation, family, and form in the late realist English novel produce a new ethics of hospitality. Hollander reads texts that both portray and enact a unique ethical orientation of welcoming the other, a narrative hospitality that combines the Victorians’ commitment to engaging with the real world with a more modern awareness of difference and the limits of knowledge. While classic nineteenth-century realism rests on a sympathy-based model of moral relations, novels by authors such as George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Olive Schreiner present instead an ethical recognition of the distance between self and other. Opening themselves to the other in their very structure and narrative form, the visited texts both represent and theorize the ethics of hospitality, anticipating twentieth-century philosophy’s recognition of the limits of sympathy. As colonial conflicts, nationalist anxiety, and the intensification of the "woman question" became dominant cultural concerns in the 1870s and 80s, the problem of self and other, known and unknown, began to saturate and define the representation of home in the English novel. This book argues that in the wake of an erosion of confidence in the ability to understand that which is unlike the self, a moral code founded on sympathy gave way to an ethics of hospitality, in which the concept of home shifts to acknowledge the permeability and vulnerability of not only domestic but also national spaces. Concluding with Virginia Woolf’s reexamination of the novel’s potential to educate the reader in negotiating relations of alterity in a more fully modernist moment, Hollanders suggest that the late Victorian novel embodies a unique and previously unrecognized ethical mode between Victorian realism and a post-World- War-I ethics of modernist form.

Author : Grace Whistler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030377564

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Camus' Literary Ethics by Grace Whistler Pdf

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 : Dorothy J. Hale
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503614079

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The Novel and the New Ethics by Dorothy J. Hale Pdf

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.