Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative

ISBN-13: 9780367667481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 314 str.

Hanna Meretoja; Colin Davis

Opis

Making an original contribution to interdisciplinary narrative studies and narrative ethics, this volume explores the ethical potential and risks of storytelling. It stages a dialogue between contemporary literature and visual arts across media, interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives (debates in narrative studies, trauma studies, cultural me

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: Intersections of Storytelling and Ethics

Hanna Meretoja and Colin Davis

Part I: The ethical potential and limits of narrative

Chapter 2: Truth, Ethics, Fiction: Responding to Plato’s Challenge

Colin Davis

Chapter 3: Is there an Ethics to Story-Telling?

Mieke Bal

Chapter 4: Forms of Ordering: Trauma, Narrative and Ethics

Robert Eaglestone

Chapter 5: The Decline of Narrative and the Rise of the Archive

Ernst van Alphen

Chapter 6: The Story of the "Anthropos": Writing Humans and Other Primates in Contemporary Fiction

Danielle Sands

Chapter 7: From Appropriation to Dialogic Exploration: A Non-Subsumptive Model of Storytelling

Hanna Meretoja

Part II: Narrative temporalities: imagining an other life

Chapter 8: Alexander Kluge’s "Saturday in Utopia": Making Time for Other Lives with German Critical Theory and Heliotropic Narration

Leslie A. Adelson

Chapter 9: Melancholy and the Narration of Transnational Trauma in W.G. Sebald and Teju Cole

Kaisa Kaakinen

Chapter 10: Memory as Imagination in Elina Hirvonen’s When I Forgot

Riitta Jytilä

Chapter 11: Popular Representation of East Germany: Whose History is it?

Molly Andrews

Chapter 12: Realities in the Making: The Ethics of Fabulation in Observational Documentary Cinema

Ilona Hongisto

Part III: Narrative engagements with violence and trauma

Chapter 13: The Empathetic Listener and the Ethics of Storytelling

Aleida Assmann

Chapter 14: Theatre, Ethics and Restitution: What is Theatre Good For?

Anna Reading

Chapter 15: Towards an Intercultural Aesthetics: Shaping the Memory of Political Violence and Historical Trauma in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Artwork Where is Where?

Mia Hannula

Chapter 16: Reading Terror: Imagining Violent Acts through the Rational or Narrative Sublime

Cassandra Falke

Chapter 17: War & Storytelling After 9/11: A Photojournalist’s Perspective

Louie Palu

Part IV: Concluding reflections

Chapter 18: Narrative in Dark Times

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

O autorze

Colin Davis is Professor of French at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku, Finland.