On Making Fiction

Frankenstein and the Life of Stories

Friederike Danebrock

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Transcript Verlag
30 May 2023

Literary theory

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.

By: Friederike Danebrock
Imprint: Transcript Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 425g
ISBN: 9783837665505
ISBN 10: 383766550X
Pages: 292
Publication Date: 30 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Friederike Danebrock earned her doctorate in English literature from Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany. Besides psychoanalysis and/as materialist philosophy, her research focuses on narrative theory and theories on fiction.