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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 this volume explore the world of fan fiction--its purposes, how it is created, how the fan experiences it. Grouped by subject matter, essays cover topics such as genre intersection, sexual relationships between characters, character construction through narrative, and the role of the beta reader in online communities. The work also discusses the terminology used by creators of fan artifacts and comments on the effects of technological advancements on fan communities.
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Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: Work in Progress
Fan Fiction: A Bibliography of Critical Works
A Brief History of Media Fandom
PART I—DIFFERENT APPROACHES: FAN FICTION IN CONTEXT
1. Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction
2. One True Pairing: The Romance of Pornography and the Pornography of Romance
3. Intimatopia: Genre Intersections Between Slash and the Mainstream
PART II—CHARACTERS, STYLE, TEXT: FAN FICTION AS LITERATURE
4. The Toy Soldiers from Leeds: The Slash Palimpsest
5. Construction of Fan Fiction Character Through Narrative
6. Keeping Promises to Queer Children: Making Space (for Mary Sue) at Hogwarts
PART III—READERS AND WRITERS: FAN FICTION AND COMMUNITY
7. The Audience as Editor: The Role of Beta Readers in Online Fan Fiction Communities
8. Cunning Linguists: The Bisexual Erotics of Words/ Silence/Flesh
9. My Life Is a WIP on My LJ: Slashing the Slasher and the Reality of Celebrity and Internet Performances
PART IV—MEDIUM AND MESSAGE: FAN FICTION AND BEYOND
10. Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance
11. "This Dratted Thing": Fannish Storytelling Through New Media
12. From Shooting Monsters to Shooting Movies: Machinima and the Transformative Play of Video Game Fan Culture
Contributors
Index
