02976nam 22005655 450 99651777100331620230228020105.03-8394-6550-810.1515/9783839465509(CKB)5580000000513022(DE-B1597)641429(DE-B1597)9783839465509(NjHacI)995580000000513022(EXLCZ)99558000000051302220230228h20232023 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierOn Making Fiction Frankenstein and the Life of Stories /Friederike DanebrockBielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]©20231 online resource (292 p.)Literaturtheorie : TRSLITT ;53-8376-6550-X Includes bibliographical references.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Figures -- Introduction -- Narrative Interest and the Body -- Physicality and Perspective -- Part One: Coda -- Part Two: Repetition -- Introduction -- Sequels: Going Forward, Looking Back -- Repeating Repetition: Series and Singularity -- Part Two: Coda -- Part Three: Company -- Introduction -- Imperfection and Collaboration -- Strange Intimacies: Vulnerability and Liberation -- Part Three: Coda -- To Conclude -- "Love Your Monsters" -- Works CitedFiction, we are told, is 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.LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & TheorybisacshActor-Network-Theory.Body.British Studies.Film.Literary Studies.Literature.Narrative.New Materialism.Ontology.Theory of Literature.LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.741.5973Danebrock Friederike, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1350533Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorffndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996517771003316On Making Fiction3088755UNISA