On Making Fiction: Frankenstein and the Life of Stories

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Half title
About the Author
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Strange(r) Things: Fiction and Frankenstein
	“Voodoo Metaphysics”? Towards a New Sense of Make‐Believe
	Endlessly Transparent? Frankenstein, Literary Criticism, andtheLogic of Reflection
	The Transformation of Stories: Adaptation,Mediation,andtheReal ofIntertextuality
	Figures, Repetition, Company: WheretoLookforWhatFrankensteinDoes
Part One: Figures
	Narrative Interest and the Body
		No Body, no Story…
		Difficult Material
		Figures
		Speak and Be
		Truth, Judgment, Fiction
	Physicality and Perspective
		Narrative Architecture
		Voices and Images
		Productive Foldings
		The Body of Narrative Plot
		Contingencies, Technological and Organic
		The Substance of Fiction
	Part One: Coda
Part Two: Repetition
	Sequels: Going Forward, Looking Back
		That Was Not the End At All
		A Resurrection in Three Parts
		Generation without Origin
		Traces, Path‐Breakers
		Begin and End
		Operation in Two Directions
	Repeating Repetition: Series and Singularity
		Series and Adaptations
		Repetition Unbound
		Creature No. 3
		Making Memories
		Tracing the Individual
		Repetition, High and Low
		Being and Being‐About
		Surfaces and Simulacra
		Beyond Sovereign Imitation
	Part Two: Coda
Part Three: Company
	Imperfection and Collaboration
		You Will Be You Again
		Double Casting I
		Ontology of Non‐Self‐Coincidence
		Existence as Production
		Collaborative Agency
	Strange Intimacies: Vulnerability and Liberation
		Intimacy Inhibited
		Feral Woman
		A More Cryptic Feminist Text
		Vulnerability and Imagination
		Double Casting II
		Address and Response
		Both Strange and Familiar
		Genuine Transformations
	Part Three: Coda
To Conclude
	“Love Your Monsters”
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