By Way of Introduction – Reflections on Narrative and Values, and the Value of Narratives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. By Way of Introduction – Reflections on Narrative and Values, and the Value of Narratives 1
4. The Ethical Potential and Risks of Narratives: Six Evaluative Continuums (and Sofi Oksanen’s Open Letter to Melania Trump) 23
5. Narrative, Values, and the Place of the Human: Coordinating Anthropocentrism and Biocentrism 43
6. The Circulating Professor: Narrative Configuration in Nabokov’s Pnin 61
7. Multi-authored Yet Authorless Film Photonovels, an Ethical Paradox? 75
8. Schrödinger’s Duck-Rabbit: Ambiguity and Meta-Framing across Media 93
9. “Find me a motive!” Accusatory Rhetoric, Narrative and Values in Emile Zola’s ‘J’accuse’ 117
10. The Right to Speak: The Cultural Archive and the Public Sphere in South Africa 133
11. Dangerous Narratives: How Fake News and Narrative Journalism Shed Light on Journalism’s Epistemological Foundations and Self-understanding in the Twenty-first Century 155
12. Beating Illness Into Shape: Applied Narratology and the Dangers of Storytelling 181
13. Contributors 205
14. Index 209