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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Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Literaturtheorie : TRSLITT ; 5
Physical Description:1 online resource (292 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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