On Making Fiction : : Frankenstein and the Life of Stories / / Friederike Danebrock.

Fiction, 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 Frank...

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Fiction, 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.
In English.
funded by Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf
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 Cited
Includes bibliographical references.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh
Actor-Network-Theory.
Body.
British Studies.
Film.
Literary Studies.
Literature.
Narrative.
New Materialism.
Ontology.
Theory of Literature.
Frankenstein, Victor (Fictitious character)
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Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Part One: Figures --
Narrative Interest and the Body --
Physicality and Perspective --
Part One: Coda --
Part Two: Repetition --
Sequels: Going Forward, Looking Back --
Repeating Repetition: Series and Singularity --
Part Two: Coda --
Part Three: Company --
Imperfection and Collaboration --
Strange Intimacies: Vulnerability and Liberation --
Part Three: Coda --
To Conclude --
"Love Your Monsters" --
Works Cited
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Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Part One: Figures --
Narrative Interest and the Body --
Physicality and Perspective --
Part One: Coda --
Part Two: Repetition --
Sequels: Going Forward, Looking Back --
Repeating Repetition: Series and Singularity --
Part Two: Coda --
Part Three: Company --
Imperfection and Collaboration --
Strange Intimacies: Vulnerability and Liberation --
Part Three: Coda --
To Conclude --
"Love Your Monsters" --
Works Cited
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Contents --
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Introduction --
Part One: Figures --
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Part One: Coda --
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Repeating Repetition: Series and Singularity --
Part Two: Coda --
Part Three: Company --
Imperfection and Collaboration --
Strange Intimacies: Vulnerability and Liberation --
Part Three: Coda --
To Conclude --
"Love Your Monsters" --
Works Cited
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