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Title: Reader As Accomplice : Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov
Description: Reader as Accomplice: Narrative Ethics in Dostoevsky and Nabokov argues that Fyodor Dostoevsky and Vladimir Nabokov seek to affect the moral imagination of their readers by linking morally laden plots to the ethical questions raised by narrative fiction at the formal level. By doing so, these two authors ask us to consider and respond to the ethical demands that narrative acts of representation and interpretation place on authors and readers. Using the lens of narrative ethics, Alexander Spektor brings to light the important, previously unexplored correspondences between Dostoevsky and Nabokov. Ultimately, he argues for a productive comparison of how each writer investigates the ethical costs of narrating oneself and others. He also explores the power dynamics between author, character, narrator, and reader. In his readings of such texts as “The Meek One” and The Idiot by Dostoevsky and Bend Sinister and Despair by Nabokov, Spektor demonstrates that these authors incite the reader's sense of ethics by exposing the risks but also the possibilities of narrative fiction.
Authors: Alexander Spektor
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Subjects: Ethics in literature, Literature and morals, Narration (Rhetoric)--Moral and ethical aspects
Categories: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Soviet
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