Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Dangers of Narrative and Fictionality: Introduction -- Story-critical narrative theory -- Rhetorical fictionality theory -- Pragmatic and critical approaches to the relationship between narrative and fictionality -- The outline of the volume -- Part I: Narrative, Fictionality and the Public Sphere -- 1. Bad Press: The Rhetoric of Narrative in Public Discourse -- What even is a narrative? -- 'A Narrative' versus 'The Narrative' -- Narrative as political rhetoric -- Narrative as political commentary -- Journalistic emplotment and competing narratives -- Narrative falsehood: Fiction, misinformation and conspiracy -- Narrative versus story -- Post-truth: Narrative and possible worlds -- 2. Dangers of Media Hoaxing -- Theoretical and methodological framework -- Hoaxing -- Fictionality and hoaxing -- The Yes Men -- @deeptomcruise: Deepfake technology and initial scepticism -- Findings: A method for analysing hoaxes -- 3. Assessing the Genre of Docudrama: The Case of Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7 -- The Trial of the Chicago 7 -- The Chicago 7 and the historical record -- Historically accurate representations -- Partially accurate representations -- Distortions/Inventions -- A rhetorical approach to fictionality and nonfictionality -- Q& -- A about The Chicago 7 -- Assessing The Trial of the Chicago 7: Salience and efficacy in four instances of fictionality -- Assessing the docudrama -- Part II: Networked Rhetoric -- 4. The Message Is Not the Truth: Uses and Affordances of Narrative Form on Social Media Platforms -- Towards a relational understanding of affordance in narrative theory -- Forms of content and forms of agency -- The irrelevance of the 'original' -- Changing the contextual assumption: Readings of 'Cat Person'.

Conclusions -- 5. Storytelling and Participatory Immersion in the Niilo22 Experience -- Social media and YouTube as technological platforms -- Storytelling online -- Immersion and irony -- Telling and following as participatory immersion -- Key scenes: 'Weather' and 'Sleep' -- Conclusion -- Part III: Repositioning the Novel -- 6. 'It […] cannot do any harm to anyone whatsoever': Fictionality, Invention and Knowledge Creation in Global Nonfictions, Joseph Conrad's Prefaces and Chance -- Fictionality as knowledge creation and invention, truth and credibility in Conrad's prefaces -- Contextualizing fictionality and invention in Chance's representation of nonfictional conversational storytelling -- Knowledge creation and the dangers of shifts between fictionality and ambiguously signalled or unsignalled communicated invention in nonfictional conversational storytelling -- Conclusion: What Conrad's fictional story teaches us about nonfictional conversational storytelling -- 7. Positioning You: Fictionality and Interpellation in Janne Teller's War: What If It Were Here?388 -- What if? -- Second-person narration and reader involvement -- Second-person narration as interpellation -- Potential dangers of an interpellative use of second-person narration -- 8. 'But it hurts like I killed someone': Character Assassinations and Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle -- Character assassinations in contemporary culture and literature -- Offended by My Struggle -- Exposing Knausgaard's uncle's attack -- 'Oh, Linda, Linda' -- The novel as another place -- Part IV: Broadening the Scope of Rhetorical Fictionality Theory -- 9. On Being Lectured in and by Fiction: Rhetorical Directness and Indirectness of Fictional Instructiveness -- Instructive fictions -- The Pale King: What does this lecture really inform us about? -- Oneiron: How to authorize factuality in fiction.

The Underground Railroad: The consonance of didacticism and fictionality -- Conclusion: Why factuality and instructiveness make a difference to the relevance of fictions -- 10. Dangers of Fictionality, Human Sexuality and Sexual Fantasies -- Imagination, fictionality and human sexuality637 -- Recent fictionality theory and earlier approaches to similar questions -- Three dangers of fictionality in the context of human sexuality -- Sexuality as a purpose of fictionality -- Conclusion: Purposes of imagination, fictionality and sexual fantasies -- Bibliography.