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NARRATIVE ETHICS VIBS Volume 267 Robert Ginsberg Founding Editor Leonidas Donskis Executive Editor Associate Editors G. John M. Abbarno Steven V. Hicks George Allan Richard T. Hull Gerhold K. Becker Michael Krausz Raymond Angelo Belliotti Olli Loukola Kenneth A. Bryson Mark Letteri C. Stephen Byrum Vincent L. Luizzi Robert A. Delfino Hugh P. McDonald Rem B. Edwards Adrianne McEvoy Malcolm D. Evans J.D. Mininger Roland Faber Peter A. Redpath Andrew Fitz-Gibbon Arleen L. F. Salles Francesc Forn i Argimon John R. Shook Daniel B. Gallagher Eddy Souffrant William C. Gay Tuija Takala Dane R. Gordon Emil Višňovský J. Everet Green Anne Waters Heta Aleksandra Gylling James R. Watson Matti Häyry John R. Welch Brian G. Henning Thomas Woods a volume in Philosophy, Literature, and Politics PLP Edited by Leonidas Donskis and J.D. Mininger NARRATIVE ETHICS Edited by Jakob Lothe and Jeremy Hawthorn Amsterdam - New York, NY 2013 Cover photo: www.dreamstime.com Cover Design: Studio Pollmann The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-3728-1 E-Book ISBN: 978-94-012-0982-3 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY 2013 Printed in the Netherlands Philosophy, Literature, and Politics (PLP) Leonidas Donskis and J.D. Mininger Editors Other Titles in PLP Leonidas Donskis, Ed. Niccolò Machiavelli: History, Power, and Virtue. 2011. VIBS 143 Leonidas Donskis and J. D. Mininger, Eds. Politics Otherwise. 2012. VIBS 242 Yuval Lurie. Wittgenstein on the Human Spirit. 2012. VIBS 248 Necip Fikri. Rethinking Plato. 2012. VIBS 251 Leonidas Donskis, Ed. Yet Another Europe after 1984. 2012. VIBS 252 Raymond Angelo Belliotti. Shakespeare and Philosophy. 2012. VIBS 256 CONTENTS EDITORIALFOREWORD xi LEONIDASDONSKIS PREFACE xiii INTRODUCTION 1 JEREMYHAWTHORN AND JAKOBLOTHE Part One: THEORY 11 ONE Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? 13 J.HILLISMILLER TWO Narratology, Ethical Turns, Circularities, and a Meta-Ethical Way Out 25 LIESBETHKORTHALSALTES THREE Ethics, the Diachronization of Narratology, and the Margins of Unreliable Narration 41 J.ALEXANDERBAREIS Part Two: ETHICS AND READING 57 FOUR The Problem of Narratives in the Bible: Moral Issues and Suggested Reading Strategies 59 GREGERANDERSSON FIVE Reading Fiction: Voyeurism without Shame? 73 JEREMYHAWTHORN SIX An Ethics of Reading Sophisticated Narratives: The Example of J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello 89 MARKKULEHTIMÄKI SEVEN Authority, Reliability, and the Challenge of Reading: The Narrative Ethics of Jonathan Littell’sThe Kindly Ones 103 JAKOBLOTHE viii NARRATIVE ETHICS Part Three: ETHICALRESPONSIBILITY OF THE AUTHOR 119 EIGHT Ethical Force of Fictionalization in Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen 121 KATRINEANTONSEN NINE The Ethics of Literary Borrowing: Risks and Rewards 137 HENRIKSKOVNIELSEN TEN Twain, Huck, Jim, and Us: Or, the Ethics of Progression in Huckleberry Finn 153 JAMESPHELAN AND PETERJ.RABINOWITZ ELEVEN “Anything But a Simpleton”: The Ethics of Representing Intellectual Disability in Tarjei Vesaas’s The Birds 167 HOWARDSKLAR Part Four: TEXTUALSTUDIES 181 TWELVE Adam Smith Meets the Devil: Demonic Pacts and Moral Sentiments in the Gothic Novel 183 KARINKUKKONEN THIRTEEN The Grieving Mind in Words and Images 197 MIRJAKOKKO FOURTEEN Travels Across Ethical Borders: Anonymity and Space in Nadine Gordimer’s “The Ultimate Safari” 211 DANARYANLANDE FIFTEEN Narrative Ethics in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings 225 LYKKEGUANIO-ULURU SIXTEEN The Palpable Lolita: Form and Affect from the Perspective of Poetics 239 ERIK VAN OOIJEN Contents ix SEVENTEEN The Age of Scientific Racism: Internal Focalization and Narrative Ethics in Toni Morrison’s Beloved 253 KLAUSBRAX WORKS CITED 269 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 295 NAMEINDEX 301 SUBJECTINDEX 307
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