A Study on Narrative Ethics Approach: Its Application to Disgust of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-73
Author(s):  
Junhewk Kim
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Ethics

scholarly journals Climate Fiction and the Ethics of Existentialism

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Jens Kramshøj Flinker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Narrative Ethics ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Ethical System ◽  
Positive Side ◽  
Climate Fiction ◽  
Better Than

        The purpose of this article is twofold: Existentialism as a philosophical discipline and ethical reference point seems to be a rare guest in ecocriticism. Based on an analysis of Lyra Koli's climate fiction Allting Växer (2018) this article argues that existentialism has something to offer to the ecocritical field. I make use of an econarratological approach, drawing on James Phelan's narrative ethics. Thus, I emphasize the article's second purpose, as narrative ethics is about reconstructing narratives own ethical standards rather than the reader bringing a prefabricated ethical system to the narrative. This reading practice can help to question the idea that some ethical and philosophical standards are better than others within ecocriticism—by encouraging scholars in ecocriticism to relate to what existentialism has to do with climate change in this specific case. In continuation of my analysis, I argue that Allting Växer is pointing at a positive side of existentialist concepts such as anxiety or anguish, that is, that there is a reflecting and changing potential in these moods or experiences. This existentialist framework contrasts with the interpretation of "Anthropocene disorder" (Timothy Clark) as the only outcome when confronting the complexity of the Anthropocene.

Narrative Ethics

2012 ◽  
pp. 115-149
Author(s):  
Tom Tomlinson
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Ethics

Narrative Ethics

2007 ◽  
pp. 151-157
Author(s):  
Howard Brody
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Ethics
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