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On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of Stories
[Dissertation]
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... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Fiktion; Erzählung; Ontologie; Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie; Literatur; Film; Körper
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
New Materialism; Theory of Literature; British Studies; Literary Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2023
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
290 S.
Schriftenreihe
Literary Theory, 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839465509
ISSN
2703-0202
ISBN
978-3-8394-6550-9
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)