Narrative Ethics

Leonidas Donskis: Editorial Foreword Preface Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe: Introduction Part One: Theory J. Hillis Miller: Should We Read or Teach Literature Now? Liesbeth Korthals Altes: Narratology, Ethical Turns, Circularities, and a Meta-Ethical Way Out J. Alexander Bareis: Ethics, the Diachronization of Narratology, and the Margins of Unreliable Narration Part Two: Ethics and Reading Greger Andersson: The Problem of Narratives in the Bible: Moral Issues and Suggested Reading Strategies Jeremy Hawthorn: Reading Fiction: Voyeurism without Shame? Markku Lehtimaki: An Ethics of Reading Sophisticated Narratives: The Example of J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello Jakob Lothe: Authority, Reliability, and the Challenge of Reading: The Narrative Ethics of Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones Part Three: Ethical Responsibility of the Author Katrine Antonsen: Ethical Force of Fictionalization in Michael Frayn's Copenhagen Henrik Skov Nielsen: The Ethics of Literary Borrowing: Risks and Rewards James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz: Twain, Huck, Jim, and Us: Or, the Ethics of Progression in Huckleberry Finn Howard Sklar: "Anything But a Simpleton": The Ethics of Representing Intellectual Disability in Tarjei Vesaas's The Birds Part Four: Textual Studies Karin Kukkonen: Adam Smith Meets the Devil: Demonic Pacts and Moral Sentiments in the Gothic Novel Mirja Kokko: The Grieving Mind in Words and Images Dana Ryan Lande: Travels Across Ethical Borders: Anonymity and Space in Nadine Gordimer's "The Ultimate Safari" Lykke Guanio-Uluru: Narrative Ethics in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings Erik van Ooijen: The Palpable Lolita: Form and Affect from the Perspective of Poetics Klaus Brax: The Age of Scientific Racism: Internal Focalization and Narrative Ethics in Toni Morrison's Beloved Works Cited About the Authors Name Index Subject Index