Adam Zachary Newton

Adam Zachary Newton is widely cited on the subject of how readers engage with text. [Long, Elizabeth. "Book Clubs: Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life". Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ISBN 0226492613] [Karnicky, J. (2007). "Contemporary fiction and the ethics of modern culture". New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781403977601] [Knellwolf, C., Norris, C., & Osborn, J. (2001). "The Cambridge history of literary criticism. Vol. 9, Twentieth-century historical, philosophical and psychological perspectives". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 380 ISBN 0521300142] [Wolfreys, J. (2002). "Introducing criticism at the 21st century". Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, p. 114 ISBN 0585443408 ] [ Davis, T. F., & Womack, K. (2001). "Mapping the ethical turn: a reader in ethics, culture, and literary theory". Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, p. 5 ISBN 0813920558] He is Chair of the Department of English at Yeshiva University and the former Jane and Rowland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English at the University of Texas at Austin.

Newton is a graduate of Haverford College and has a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1992). While at Harvard, his book, "Narrative ethics", "sought a bridge between the disciplines of ethical philosophy and literary studies by proposing a new way to think about the moral realms of risk and responsibility as problems of reading." [cite news |url=http://www.yucommentator.com/news/2007/09/04/Features/Fresh.Faces-2944273.shtml |publisher=The Commentator, Official Newspaper of Yeshiva College and the Sy Syms School of Business |title=Fresh Faces |work=2007-09-04 Interview |accessdate=2008-02-25] He defines narrative ethics as "the ethical consequences of narrating story... and the reciprocal claims binding teller, listener, witness, and reader in that process." [Ballaster, R. (2005). Fabulous orients: fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 13. ISBN 9780199267330] Other scholars apply his approach and find new ways to read old books. [ Lapsley, J. E. (2005). "Whispering the Word: hearing women's stories in the Old Testament". Louisville, Ky: Westminster John Knox Press, p. 100, ISBN 0664224350]

Bibliography

;Books
* —. (1999). "Facing Black and Jew literature as public space in twentieth-century America". Cultural margins. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0511006152
* —. (1992). "Narrative ethics the intersubjective claim of fiction". Mass., Harvard Univ., Diss., 1992--Cambridge. OCLC 180587177
* —. (2005) "The elsewhere: on belonging at a near distance : reading literary memoir from Europe and the Levant". Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299208907
* —. (2001). "The fence and the neighbor: Emmanuel Levinas, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Israel among the nations". SUNY series in Jewish philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0791447839 ;Journal articles
* —. (1996). From Exegesis to Ethics: Recognition and Its Vicissitudes in Saul Bellow and Chester Himes. "The South Atlantic Quarterly". 95, no. 4: 979. OCLC 91843318
* —. (2001). Versions of Ethics; Or, The SARL of Criticism: Sonority, Arrogation, Letting-Be. "American Literary History". 13 (3), 603-637. OCLC 88051868
* —. (1998). ARTICLES - "Nothing But Face" -- "To Hell with Philosophy"?: Witold Gombrowicz, Bruno Schulz, and the Scandal of Human Countenance. "Style". 32 (2), 243. OCLC 95198199
* —. (1996). Is Jew/Greek Greek/Jew; or does 'Hebrew' mean Cross-over? the Tightrope, the Window, and the Text- an Excursus on Identity. "Social Identities". 2 (1), 93. OCLC 88321843

Prizes

* 1993, "Narrative ethics the intersubjective claim of fiction", Thomas J. Wilson Prize, Harvard University Press

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