Hanna Meretoja - Publications#

Monographs

1. Meretoja, H. 2018. The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible. Oxford University Press.

"Hanna Meretoja has written a much-needed book, showing how literature can expand our sense of the possible while warning against inflated claims about its moral value. Both hope and caution, she insists, are needed. Meretoja's analysis is remarkably capacious in its synthesis of literary, philosophical, and historical perspectives. Its intellectual ambitions, meanwhile, are matched by the exceptional precision and clarity of its arguments. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the ethics of narrative." (Rita Felski, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Department of English, University of Virginia)

2. Meretoja, H. 2014. The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory: The Crisis and Return of Storytelling from Robbe-Grillet to Tournier. Palgrave Macmillan.

"Meretoja's book develops a philosophical approach to literature which sees fiction as dynamically bound up with philosophy, not as a medium for expressing pre-existing positions but as one of the ways in which existing ideas are explored and tested. This understanding of the literary text as performing thought in its very literary form makes possible the exchange which the book negotiates between the texts and a wide range of contemporary thinkers. The philosophical and literary acumen shown here is deeply impressive. This is high stakes literary criticism. Secondary writing on literature can sometimes be clever but trivial; no one can make that accusation at this study. This is an original, innovative and scholarly piece of work that constitutes a major contribution to literary criticism, narrative studies and the humanities more broadly." (Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

Edited volumes (a selection)

3. E. Laanes & H. Meretoja (eds) 2021. Cultural Memorial Forms. Special issue of the journal Memory Studies.

4. G. Duijzings, H. Meretoja, N. Mocnik & B. Njeresa Beti (eds.) Engaging with Historical Traumas: Experiential Learning and Pedagogies of Resilience. Routledge.

5. Davis, C. & H. Meretoja (eds.) 2020. Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma. Routledge.

6. Meretoja, H. & C. Davis (eds.). 2018. Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative. Routledge.

7. Meretoja, H, S. Isomaa, P. Lyytikäinen & K. Malmio (eds.). 2015. Values of Literature. Brill Rodopi.

Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters (a selection)

8. Davis, C. & H. Meretoja (forthcoming). "Literature, Testimony and Regimes of Truth." Comparative Literature Studies.

9. Meretoja, H. 2020. "Dialogics of Counter-Narratives." Handbook of Counter-Narratives. In K. Lueg & M. W. Lundholt (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Counter-Narratives. Routledge.

10. Meretoja, H. 2019. “Beyond Sameness and Difference: Narrative Sense-Making in Life and Literature.” Frontiers of Narrative Studies 5(1), 76–93.

11. Meretoja, H. 2017. “On the Use and Abuse of Narrative for Life: Toward an Ethics of Storytelling.” In B. Schiff et al. (eds.), Narrative and Life: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience. Oxford University Press, 75–97.

12. Meretoja, H. 2016. “History, Fiction and the Possible: Jonathan Littell’s Les Bienveillantes.” Orbis Litterarum 81(5), 371–404.

13. Meretoja, H. 2016. “For Interpretation.” Storyworlds 8(2), 97–117.

14. J. Brockmeier & H. Meretoja. 2014 “Understanding Narrative Hermeneutics.” Storyworlds 6(2), 1–27. (52 citations)

15. Meretoja, H. 2014. “Narrative and Human Existence: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics.” New Literary History 45(1), 89–109. (83 citations)