On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of Stories

Fiction is generally understood to be a fascinating, yet somehow deficient affair, merely derivative of reality. What if we could, instead, come up with an affirmative approach that takes stories seriously in their capacity to bring forth a substance of their own? Iconic texts such as Mary Shelley&#...

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1. Verfasser:	Danebrock, Friederike
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Actor-Network-Theory Biography, Literature and Literary studies Body British Studies Cultural and media studies Fiction Fiktion Film history, theory or criticism Films, cinema Linguistik LITERARY CRITICISM Literary Studies Literary studies: general Literary theory Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft Literature Literature: history and criticism Literaturwissenschaft Media studies Narrative New Materialism Ontology Performing arts Semiotics & Theory Society and culture: general Society and Social Sciences Sprachwissenschaft The Arts Theory of Literature
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Zusammenfassung:	Fiction is generally understood to be a fascinating, yet somehow deficient affair, merely derivative of reality. What if we could, instead, come up with an affirmative approach that takes stories seriously in their capacity to bring forth a substance of their own? Iconic texts such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and its numerous adaptations stubbornly resist our attempts to classify them as mere representations of reality. Friederike Danebrock shows how these texts insist that we take them seriously as agents and interlocutors in our world- and culture-making activities. Drawing on this analysis, she develops a theory of narrative fiction as a generative practice.
ISSN:	2703-0202
DOI:	10.14361/9783839465509