This book seeks to honour Jakob Lothe for his significant contributions to narrative studies and to literary studies more generally, in an international as well as Norwegian national context. It does so by offering a collection of essays on narrative ethics that in various ways engage with aspects of Lothe’s academic work, seeking to add to the understanding of some of the texts, authors, artworks, and topics that have been central to Lothe’s own writing in the course of his distinguished career.

Contents

Introduction
by Lykke Guanio-Uluru and Collin Davis

Books by Jakob Lothe

Part 1: Ethics and Aesthetics
Chapter 1: “Jakob Lothe Does Not Know”
by Colin Davis

Chapter 2: “Å skrive om andre: Etikk i litteratur og film”
by Eli Løfaldli

Chapter 3: “Ethics or Aesthetics? Refugee Literature’s Double-bind”
by Ulla Rahbek

Chapter 4: “Hva kommer etter tidsvitnene? Etiske og estetiske dimensjoner i Simon Strangers romaner Leksikon om lys og mørke (2018) og Museum for mordere og redningsmenn (2023)”
by Anette Homlong Storeide

Chapter 5: “Changing Perceptions of Jane Austen’s Ethical Status and their Relation to Values Embedded in her Novels”
by Marie Nedregotten Sørbø

Part 2: Reading and Rereading
Chapter 6: “Virginia Woolf’s The Waves and the Reader’s Interpretation of Narrative”
by Jeremy Hawthorn

Chapter 7: “‘The baffling things that are left over’: A Note on the Untimely in the Early Reception of The Turn of the Screw”
by Stuart McWilliams

Chapter 8: “On Rereading: Revisiting Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones”
by Hanna Meretoja

Chapter 9: “Litterære avfallsdialogar i bildeboka Sinko og Flinko stablar om (2022) – ei helsing frå gatene i Bergen”
by Nina Goga

Chapter 10: “‘They treat the child as if he is a thing, and now the thing is broken, right.’ Raymond Carver’s ‘Little Things’ in Literature Circles”
by Åsmund Hennig

Part 3: Voices
Chapter 11: “Røysta som etisk fordring”
by Jan Inge Sørbø

Chapter 12: “Uncle Charles Revisited: Does Free Indirect Style Enable or Prevent Critical Judgement?”
by Juan Christian Pellicer

Chapter 13: “The Narrative Imperative: Giving Voice to the Marginalized, Two Japanese Perspectives”
by Anne Thelle

Chapter 14: “Plant Perspective(s) and Plant Voice(s): Storying Plant-Human Interrelationships”

by Lykke Guanio-Uluru

Contributors

Index

Tabula Gratulatoria

Published in the following formats:
Paper: ISBN 978-82-8390-164-1, 272 pp, hardcover, format: 15,8x22 cm, weight 0,5 kg,, year of publication 2025, language: English, Norwegian