Ethical Interpretation of Narrative Perspective in Novels

Abstract

Abstract: As a formal technique, narrative perspective in novels also has ethical meaning. Different perspectives in narration produce different ethical effects, and a change of perspective results in different ethical effect. In terms of the rhetorical effects of narrative perspective, both the decorative and the persuasive natures of rhetoric point eventually to ethics, while in terms of the value in narrative perspective, the communication between the reader and the author based on psychological exchange is also an ethical communication.

Key words: perspective, ethics, rhetoric, communication

Jiang Shouyi. Ethical Interpretation of Narrative Perspective in Novels[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2014, 34(5): 180-188.

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