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On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of Stories
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Abstract 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... view more
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. The author 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.... view less
Keywords
fiction (imagination); narrative; ontology; actor-network-theory; literature; film; body
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
New Materialism; Theory of Literature; British Studies; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2023
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
290 p.
Series
Literary Theory, 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839465509
ISSN
2703-0202
ISBN
978-3-8394-6550-9
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed