A Review of Dorothy J.Hale's The Novel and the New Ethics
The Novel and the New Ethics is Dorothy J.Hale's major contribution to the ethical criticism.Focusing on the history of 20th-century modernist novels in Britain and America,the book elucidates the"novelistic aesthetics of alterity"by analyzing the presentation of major narrative modes in key representative works.The author argues that influenced by Henry James's artistic style,modernist novelists in Britain and America tend to employ impersonal narrative strategies to portray the lives of the Others.This narrative mode engages readers directly with the text,prompting them to embark on an alterity imagination.Simultaneously,the limited,ambiguous,or absent narrative information prompts readers to question and reflect on various assumptions during the reading process.As a theoretical supplement to the"novelistic aesthetics of alterity,"the book introduces the main points of"new ethics"criticism and elaborates on them through analyses of major representative works in the field.
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