Open AccessNarrativ etik?
Author(s) -
Henrik Skov Nielsen
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
k and k/kandk
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2246-2589
pISSN - 0905-6998
DOI - 10.7146/kok.v36i106.22024
Subject(s) - narratology , reading (process) , narrative , philosophy , sociology , literature , art , linguistics
Narrative Ethics?:The present article first presents a brief review of major trends in the narratology of recent year’s. Next it focuses specifically on the ethical narratology associated with Wayne Booth, James Phelan and Dorothy Hale. By presenting Phelan’s ethical approach to a short story by Ambrose Bierce, the article introduces methodological tools it puts to the test by sketching out a reading of the question of right in Steen Steensen Blicher’s short story »Præsten i Vejlbye«. It is finally argued that Søren Kierkegaard and Steen Steensen Blicher were much closer to each other in their ethical thinking than has previously been acknowledged.