Friederike Danebrock 
On Making Fiction 
Frankenstein and the Life of Stories

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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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.