Verlag:
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson
Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer''s Odyssey and Euripedes'' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought...
mehr
Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer''s Odyssey and Euripedes'' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are widely read and even more widely commented upon. New interactions between readers and writers of fan texts are possible in these new virtual communities. From Star Trek to Harry Potter, the essays in th
Cover ; Contents ; Preface ; Introduction: Work in Progress (Kristina Busse and Karen Hellekson) ; Fan Fiction: A Bibliography of Critical Works ; A Brief History of Media Fandom (Francesca Coppa) ; Part I-Different Approaches: Fan Fiction in Context ; 1. Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction (Abigail Derecho); 2. One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance (Catherine Driscoll) ; 3. Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream (Elizabeth Woledge)
Part II-Characters, Style, Text: Fan Fiction as Literature 4. The Toy Soldiers from Leeds: The Slash Palimpsest (Mafalda Stasi); 5. Construction of Fan Fiction Character Through Narrative (Deborah Kaplan); 6. Keeping Promises to Queer Children: Making Space (for Mary Sue) at Hogwarts (Ika Willis) ; Part III-Readers and Writers: Fan Fiction and Community ; 7. The Audience as Editor: the Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities (Angelina I. Karpovich) ; 8. Cunning Linguists: The Bisexual Erotics of Words/ Silence/Flesh (Eden Lackner, Barbara Lynn Lucas, and Robin Anne Reid)
9. My Life Is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances (Kristina Busse) Part IV-Medium and Message: Fan Fiction and Beyond ; 10. Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance (Francesca Coppa); 11. "This Dratted Thing": Fannish Storytelling Through New Media (Louisa Ellen Stein) ; 12. From Shooting Monsters to Shooting Movies: Machinima and the Transformative Play of Video Game Fan Culture (Robert Jones) ; Contributors ; Index
