On Making Fiction Frankenstein and the Life of Stories

• Автор: Danebrock, Friederike (auth)
• Формат: Електронний ресурс Частина з книги
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
• Серія: Literaturtheorie 5
• Предмети: Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Film theory & criticism; Media studies; Fiction; Narrative; Ontology; New Materialism; Actor-Network-Theory; Literature; Film; Body; Theory of Literature; British Studies; Literary Studies
• Онлайн доступ: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Резюме

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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1 electronic resource (292 p.)

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9783839465509
9783837665505

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