The Ethics of Storytelling
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-064936-4 (ISBN)
In her book, Meretoja develops a hermeneutic narrative ethics that differentiates between six dimensions of the ethical potential of storytelling: the power of narratives to cultivate our sense of the possible; to contribute to individual and cultural self-understanding; to enable understanding other lives non-subsumptively in their singularity; to transform the narrative in-betweens that bind people together; to develop our perspective-awareness and capacity for perspective-taking; and to function as a form of ethical inquiry. This book addresses our implication in violent histories and argues that it is as dialogic storytellers, fundamentally vulnerable and dependent on one another, that we become who we are: both as individuals and communities.
The Ethics of Storytelling seamlessly incorporates narrative ethics, literary narrative studies, narrative psychology, narrative philosophy, and cultural memory studies. It contributes to contemporary interdisciplinary narrative studies by developing narrative hermeneutics as a philosophically rigorous, historically sensitive, and analytically subtle approach to the ethical stakes of the debate on the narrative dimension of human existence.
Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature, Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory, and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Turku in Finland. Her research is mainly in the fields of narrative theory, narrative hermeneutics, and narrative ethics. She is the author of The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and the co-editor of Values of Literature (Brill, 2015) and Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts, and the Power of Narrative (Routledge, 2018).
Chapter 1 Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Storytelling
Chapter 2 Narrative Hermeneutics
Chapter 3 Storytelling and Ethics
Chapter 4 The Uses and Abuses of Narrative for Life: Julia Franck's Die Mittagsfrau
Chapter 5 Narrative Ethics of Implication: Günte Grass and Historical Imagination
Chapter 6 Narrative Dynamics, Perspective-Taking, and Engagement: Jonathan Littell's Les Bienveillantes
Chapter 7 Transforming Narrative In-Betweens: Dialogic Storytelling in David Grossman's To the End of the Land and Falling Out of Time
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Struggles Over the Possible
Erscheinungsdatum | 06.04.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Explorations in Narrative Psychology |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 236 x 155 mm |
Gewicht | 612 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-064936-4 / 0190649364 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-064936-4 / 9780190649364 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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