Hanna Meretoja's The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible develops a nuanced framework for exploring the ethical complexity of the roles narratives play in our lives. Focusing on how narratives enlarge and diminish the spaces of possibilities in which we act, think, and re-imagine the world together with others, this book proposes a theoretical-analytical framework for engaging with both the ethical potential and risks ofstorytelling.

• 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

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).