The Ethics of Form in Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye
The Ethics of Form in Muriel Spark’s The Ballad of Peckham Rye
Author(s): Petronia PetrarSubject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Aesthetics, Theory of Literature, British Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: ethics; form; narrative; incompleteness; carnivalesque; parallel experience;
Summary/Abstract: Starting from Leona Toker’s inquiries into the ethics of narrative form, the essay explores the modes in which Muriel Spark’s novel undermines cognitive and moral certainties by producing plots that subject readers to the same kind of semantic disorientation that the characters “experience” within the fictional reality. The renewal of interpretive grids thus produced paves the way for a more ethical awareness of the shared nature of our positionality in the world.
Journal: Transylvanian Review
- Issue Year: XXXII/2023
- Issue No: Suppl. 1
- Page Range: 215-225
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
