Preface
Why Ethos?
Part 1. Ethos, Narrative, and the Social Construction of Meanings and Values
1. Literary Interpretation, Ethos Attributions, and the Negotiation of Values in Culture
2. Ethos as a Social Construction: Authorial Posturing, Conceptions of Literature, and Value Regimes
Part 2. Ethos in Narratology: The Return of the Repressed
3. Narratology between Hermeneutics and Cognitive Science
4. Key Concepts Revised: Narrative and Communication, Embeddedness, Intentionality, Fictionality, and Reading Strategies
5. Whose Ethos? Characters, Narrators, Authors, and Unadopted Discourse
Part 3. Further Explorations: Contracts and Ethos Expectations
6. Generic Framing and Authorial Ethos
7. Sincerity and Other Ironies
On Narrative, Ethos, and Ethics
Notes
Works Cited
Index