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The Case for Fanfiction: Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft

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Management number 236906432 Release Date 2026/07/10 List Price US$6.65 Model Number 236906432
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Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fanfiction--a genre criticized as both tasteless and derivative--and other "guilty pleasure" reading (and writing), including romance and fantasy. The complicated relationship between "fanfic" and intellectual property rights is discussed in light of the millennia-old tradition of derivative literature, before modern copyright law established originality as the hallmark of great fiction. "Absorbed reading"--the practice of immersing oneself in the narrative versus critically "reading from a distance"--is a strong motive for the appropriation by fanfiction of canon characters and worlds. Read more

ASIN B0747TX17V
XRay Not Enabled
ISBN13 978-1476631035
Language English
File size 4.0 MB
Page Flip Enabled
Publisher McFarland
Word Wise Enabled
Reading age 18 years and up
Print length 219 pages
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Screen Reader Supported
Publication date July 25, 2017
Enhanced typesetting Enabled

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