On Making Fiction

Frankenstein and the Life of Stories

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Danebrock, Friederike
Language
English
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Abstract
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.
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https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/188939
Keywords
Fiction; Narrative; Ontology; New Materialism; Actor-Network-Theory; Literature; Film; Body; Theory of Literature; British Studies; Literary Studies; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSA Literary theory; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema::ATFA Film history, theory or criticism; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies
DOI
10.14361/9783839465509
ISBN
9783839465509, 9783837665505
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Publisher website
http://www.transcript-verlag.de
Publication date and place
Bielefeld, 2023
Imprint
transcript Verlag
Series
Literaturtheorie,
Pages
292