Dangers of Narrative and Fictionality

Samuli Björninen is a researcher in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, Finland, and a postdoctoral fellow at Aarhus University, Denmark. His postdoctoral research focuses on developing story-critical methods for interdisciplinary narrative studies and theorising the rhetorical use of factuality in narratives. Pernille Meyer is a PhD student in Scandinavian Language and Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her PhD project concerns second-person narratives in Danish literature and draws on theoretical areas such as rhetorical fictionality theory and diachronic narratology. Maria Mäkelä is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Tampere University, Finland. Her research focuses on the story economy; the neoliberal logic of narrative and fiction; narrative exemplarity; consciousness, voice and realism across media; adultery in fiction; authorial ethos; and critical applications of postclassical narratologies. Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen is Professor of Fictionality Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark. His research has attempted to contribute to conversations about three areas of narrative theory: first-person narration, unnatural narratology and fictionality. His current project is on human sexuality and the roles of imagination and fictionality in human sexual practices and preferences.

Samuli Björninen, Pernille Meyer, Maria Mäkelä and Henrik Zetterberg- Nielsen - Dangers of Narrative and Fictionality: Introduction – Part I: Narrative, Fictionality and the Public Sphere – Paul Dawson - 1. Bad Press: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Public Discourse – Louise Brix Jacobsen - 2. Dangers of Media Hoaxing – James Phelan - 3. Assessing the Genre of Docudrama: The Case of Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Part II: Networked Rhetoric – Hanna-Riikka Roine - 4. The Message Is Not the Truth: Uses and Affordances of Narrative Form on Social Media Platforms – Jarkko Toikkanen, Mari Hatavara, Maria Laakso and Hanna Rautajoki - 5. Storytelling and Participatory Immersion in the Niilo22 Experience – Part III: Repositioning the Novel – Sarah Copland - 6. ‘It […] cannot do any harm to anyone whatsoever’: Fictionality, Invention and Knowledge Creation in Global Nonfictions, Joseph Conrad’s Prefaces and Chance – Pernille Meyer - 7. Positioning You: Fictionality and Interpellation in Janne Teller’s War: What If It Were Here? – Rikke Andersen Kraglund - 8. ‘But it hurts like I killed someone’: Character Assassinations and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle – Part IV: Broadening the Scope of Rhetorical Fictionality - Theory – Samuli Björninen - 9. On Being Lectured in and by Fiction: Rhetorical Directness and Indirectness of Fictional Instructiveness – Henrik Zetterberg- Nielsen - 10. Dangers of Fictionality, Human Sexuality and Sexual Fantasies – Bibliography