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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.

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.

Psychoanalyse und neuer Materialismus scheinen zwei sich ausschließende theoretische und methodische Perspektiven zu sein. Steht bei der ersten das Subjekt im Fokus, ist es bei der zweiten ausgestrichen. Wird bei der ersten das Objekt in Relation zum Subjekt gedacht, soll es bei der zweiten aus dieser Abhängigkeit befreit werden. Die Beiträger*innen beschäftigen sich mit einer produktiven Verbindung von Psychoanalyse und neuem Materialismus. Sie loten sie anhand von Literatur, Film und Kunst aus und machen damit neue praxeologische Verbindungslinien für die Geisteswissenschaften sichtbar.