On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of Stories

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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Main Author: Danebrock, Friederike (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag [2023]
Series:Literaturtheorie : TRSLITT 5
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Summary: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
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (292 Seiten)
ISBN:9783839465509
DOI:10.1515/9783839465509

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