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[1] LIVING to Tell about It. A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character ...
Fabula - France
... Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me", Kazuo
Ishiguro's
Remains of the Day, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Vladimir
Nabokov's
Lolita, and ...
http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php[2] [3][4][5]
Parution
Living to Tell about It. A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character
Narration
Information publiée le lundi 16 août 2004 par Nicolas Wanlin[6]
James Phelan, Living to Tell about It. A rhetoric and Ethics of
Character Narration, Cornell University Press, 2004.
In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges
offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss,
Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me", Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the
Day, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and
John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story". Phelan's compelling readings
cover important theoretical ground by introducing a valuable
distinction between disclosure functions (communications from the
implied author to the authorial audience) and narrator functions
(communications from the character narrator to the narratee). Phelan
also identifies significant types of character narration (also known
as first-person narration), including restricted, suppressed, and
mask narrations. In addition, Phelan proposes new understandings of
such ingrained concepts of narrative theory as unreliable narration,
the implied author, focalization, and lyric narrative.
Utilizing what Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz have called "theory
practice", a critical method that aims to combine theory and
interpretation in mutually illuminating ways, Living to Tell about It
also makes a major contribution to ethical theory and criticism.
Phelan develops the concept of "ethical position" and explores the
interactions among the ethical positions of characters, narrators,
authors, and audiences. This approach emphasize not only the close
connections between narrative technique and ethics but also the
important interactions between the ethical positions of the authorial
audience and the flesh-and-blood reader.
Jamas Phelan is Professor of English at the Ohio State University.
Url de référence : http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu[7] Site
Internet Fabula, théorie de la littérature, actualité des études
littéraires (http://www.fabula.org).
Source : http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php[8]
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[2] http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php
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[4] http://www.fabula.org/apropos.php
[5] http://www.fabula.org/
[6] mailto:nwanlin@noos.fr
[7] http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
[8] http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:59:47 -0400
From: "Sandy P. Klein" <spklein52@hotmail.com>
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Subject: James Phelan takes up the challenges offered by diverse narratives ...
To: spklein52@hotmail.com
[1] LIVING to Tell about It. A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character ...
Fabula - France
... Harrison's The Kiss, Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me", Kazuo
Ishiguro's
Remains of the Day, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Vladimir
Nabokov's
Lolita, and ...
http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php[2] [3][4][5]
Parution
Living to Tell about It. A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character
Narration
Information publiée le lundi 16 août 2004 par Nicolas Wanlin[6]
James Phelan, Living to Tell about It. A rhetoric and Ethics of
Character Narration, Cornell University Press, 2004.
In Living to Tell about It, James Phelan takes up the challenges
offered by diverse narratives including Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss,
Ernest Hemingway's "Now I Lay Me", Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the
Day, Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, and
John Edgar Wideman's "Doc's Story". Phelan's compelling readings
cover important theoretical ground by introducing a valuable
distinction between disclosure functions (communications from the
implied author to the authorial audience) and narrator functions
(communications from the character narrator to the narratee). Phelan
also identifies significant types of character narration (also known
as first-person narration), including restricted, suppressed, and
mask narrations. In addition, Phelan proposes new understandings of
such ingrained concepts of narrative theory as unreliable narration,
the implied author, focalization, and lyric narrative.
Utilizing what Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz have called "theory
practice", a critical method that aims to combine theory and
interpretation in mutually illuminating ways, Living to Tell about It
also makes a major contribution to ethical theory and criticism.
Phelan develops the concept of "ethical position" and explores the
interactions among the ethical positions of characters, narrators,
authors, and audiences. This approach emphasize not only the close
connections between narrative technique and ethics but also the
important interactions between the ethical positions of the authorial
audience and the flesh-and-blood reader.
Jamas Phelan is Professor of English at the Ohio State University.
Url de référence : http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu[7] Site
Internet Fabula, théorie de la littérature, actualité des études
littéraires (http://www.fabula.org).
Source : http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php[8]
Links:
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[1] http://www.fabula.org/
[2] http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php
[3] http://www.fabula.org/
[4] http://www.fabula.org/apropos.php
[5] http://www.fabula.org/
[6] mailto:nwanlin@noos.fr
[7] http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
[8] http://www.fabula.org/actualites/article8870.php
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