"The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality" : The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey's Novels

y "The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality" : The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey's Novels single work criticism

Is part of Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Anglistica Upsaliensis 1963 series - publisher

Author:agent Christer Larsson

Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 "The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality" : The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey's Novels

The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

Latest Issues

VIEW ALL ISSUES (C426701)

AbstractHistoryArchive Description

This study aims to "demonstrate that recurrent formal and thematic patterns in Carey's novels suggest an interrelation between the works, and that an analysis of that interrelation can extract an argument concerning the ethics of storytelling from the texts. The issue of the status of fictional discourse receives prominent and complex consideration in Carey's novels and this study argues that Carey presents storytelling as an intentional mode of social interaction, defined and governed by extra-linguistic conventions. For the discourse to be meaningfully described as fictional, storytellers have to observe the rules that appky to their activity. (Author's abstract)