Storytelling and Ethics

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.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Intersections of Storytelling and EthicsHanna Meretoja and Colin DavisPart I: The ethical potential and limits of narrativeChapter 2: Truth, Ethics, Fiction: Responding to Plato’s ChallengeColin DavisChapter 3: Is there an Ethics to Story-Telling?Mieke BalChapter 4: Forms of Ordering: Trauma, Narrative and EthicsRobert EaglestoneChapter 5: The Decline of Narrative and the Rise of the ArchiveErnst van AlphenChapter 6: The Story of the "Anthropos": Writing Humans and Other Primates in Contemporary FictionDanielle SandsChapter 7: From Appropriation to Dialogic Exploration: A Non-Subsumptive Model of StorytellingHanna MeretojaPart II: Narrative temporalities: imagining an other lifeChapter 8: Alexander Kluge’s "Saturday in Utopia": Making Time for Other Lives with German Critical Theory and Heliotropic NarrationLeslie A. AdelsonChapter 9: Melancholy and the Narration of Transnational Trauma in W.G. Sebald and Teju ColeKaisa KaakinenChapter 10: Memory as Imagination in Elina Hirvonen’s When I ForgotRiitta JytiläChapter 11: Popular Representation of East Germany: Whose History is it?Molly AndrewsChapter 12: Realities in the Making: The Ethics of Fabulation in Observational Documentary CinemaIlona HongistoPart III: Narrative engagements with violence and traumaChapter 13: The Empathetic Listener and the Ethics of StorytellingAleida AssmannChapter 14: Theatre, Ethics and Restitution: What is Theatre Good For?Anna ReadingChapter 15: Towards an Intercultural Aesthetics: Shaping the Memory of Political Violence and Historical Trauma in Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s Artwork Where is Where? Mia HannulaChapter 16: Reading Terror: Imagining Violent Acts through the Rational or Narrative SublimeCassandra FalkeChapter 17: War & Storytelling After 9/11: A Photojournalist’s PerspectiveLouie PaluPart IV: Concluding reflectionsChapter 18: Narrative in Dark TimesAndreea Deciu Ritivoi

"Thinking of the empathetic listener as secondary witness (Assmann), the assemblage of restitution (Reading), the heterogeneous temporalities of the present (Kaakinen) and subsumptive vs. non-subsumptive storytelling (Meretoja) as well as many other tools for thought and analysis introduced and developed in this volume, it becomes clear that Storytelling and Ethics has indeed brought together new vocabularies for articulating how literary and other artistic narratives open new possibilities of thought and experiences."- Anne Rüggemeier, Diegesis