Jörg von Brincken, PhD, teaches Film, Theatre and Performance Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich).
Ute Gröbel and Irina Schulzki are working on their dissertations in the PhD Programme in Literature 'ProLit' at the LMU Munich.

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Introduction
Interacting with Fictions
Gero Tögl
Remediating Theatre: From Grand Theft Auto to The Ruby Town Oracle
Monika Bregovi
Transforming Reality in the Magic Mirror of Fiction: From Boal to SIGNA
Petra Martina Baumann
Fan Fiction: A Threefold Interaction with Fiction and the Online Community
Indicating Realities
Louisa Söllner
Touching History: Photography and the Coming Alive of the Image in María Magdalena Campos-Pons s Installation Umbilical Cord and Ana Menéndez s Novel Loving Che
Olga Smith
Pierre Huyghe s Travels with Arthur Gordon Pym
Ute Gröbel short-sleeping, quick-eating and all that stuff Kathrin Röggla s Novel we never sleep and Deconstructive Documentarism
Stefanie Heine
Between Reality and the Real. A Reading of the Term Reality in Jacques Lacan and Virginia Woolf
Realisations of Fictions
Mary Kuhn
Playing the Surface: Fiction as Socially Transformative Reality in E.D.E.N. Southworth s The Hidden Hand
Irina Schulzki
Plunging into Fan Fiction: Transgression versus Transcendence in Lost in Austen
Lindsay Palmer
Confession as Construction: The Celebrity Body as Person and Persona on Reality TV
Sne ana Kalini
Transgressing Reality and Embodying Fiction through Self-Transformation in The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan

New Forms and Interactions is a collection of eleven articles highlighting the controversial relation between the two traditionally opposed realms. By determining the forms, conditions and consequences of interaction between fiction and reality, the texts in this book refute this opposition. They also reflect on the status of the deconstructed and reconstructed boundary that separates the two ontological realms and strive toward multiple possible applications of both terms. This volume features studies of various works of literature, film, photography, video and performance art, television, fan fiction and computer games and discusses their various interrelations and hybrid forms. The diversity of media and the plurality of approaches and academic traditions build the keystone of these discussions while opening them up to the non-canonised, formerly peripheral fields of comparative literary studies. The articles are grouped into three sections which focus on (1) forms of 'interacting with fictions', (2) the complexity of 'indicating realities' and the reality status of fiction, and (3) different methods involved in the 'realisations of fictions'.