" Against the backdrop of the polarized debate on the ethical significance of storytelling, 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 l...

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1. Verfasser:	Meretoja, Hanna 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Oxford University Press 2018
Schriftenreihe:	Explorations in narrative psychology
Schlagworte:	PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology / bisacsh PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body / bisacsh LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory / bisacsh Storytelling Narration (Rhetoric) > Moral and ethical aspects Narration (Rhetoric) > Psychological aspects Narration (Rhetoric) > Social aspects Self-perception in literature Social perception in literature Awareness in literature Imagination in literature PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory Hermeneutik Ethik Erzähltheorie
Zusammenfassung:	" Against the backdrop of the polarized debate on the ethical significance of storytelling, 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 of storytelling. Further, it elaborates a narrative hermeneutics that treats narratives as culturally mediated practices of (re)interpreting experiences and articulates how narratives can be oppressive, empowering, or both. It also argues that the relationship between narrative unconscious and narrative imagination shapes our sense of the possible. 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. "...
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xii, 352 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:	9780190649364