Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
Contents |
Foreword; The Theory of Narrative Causality; Why Fic?; WRITING FROM SOURCES; A Prehistory of Fanfiction; The Look of Fic: 1800s; The Sherlock Holmes Material:A Study in Fanfic; The Early Adventures of the Apocryphal Sherlock Holmes; The Look of Fic: 1920s; Mad as a Box of Frogs; "Love Is a Much More Vicious Motivator"; The Slasher Who Is Not One (An Interview with Katie Forsythe and wordstrings); A SELECTIVE HISTORYOF MEDIA FANDOM; Science Fiction, Star Trek, and the Birth of Media Fandom; Fables of Irish Fandom; I Am Woman, Read My Fic; Recollections of a Collating Party |
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The Look of Fic: 1970s; Interlude: Growing Up Fic; Literary Playtime; The X-Files, Buffy, and the Rise of the Internet Fic Fandoms; The X-Philes; Mulder/Scully versus the G-Woman and the Fowl One; The Look of Fic: 1995; The Bronze Age; Fic U: Higher Education through Fanfiction; The Look of Fic: 1999; Megafandoms: Harry Potter and Twilight; An Excerpt from Percy Weasley's University Thesis; How Harry Potter Fanfic Changed the World (or at Least the Internet); The Look of Fic: 2001-2002; The Twilight Fandom; Twilight's True Believers; A Million Words; An Interview with tby789 (Christina Hobbs) |
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The Look of Fic: 2009-2010On Writing-and Being-a Mary Sue; Becoming Bella Swan; The Fandom Gives Back; Snowqueens Icedragon (E.L. James) and Sebastien Robichaud (SylvainReynard): A Fandom Exchange; An Anatomy of a Flame War; Bittersweet; FIC AND PUBLISHING; An Interview with Eurydice (Vivien Dean); Fifty Shades of Gold; The Briar Patch; Just Change the Names; Preying for More; FANWRITING TODAY; An Archive of Our Own; The Epic Love Story of Supernatural and Fanfic; Pon Farr, Mpreg, Bonds, and the Rise of the Omegaverse; Real Person(a) Fiction; #BradamForever; Hobbyhorsing |
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From a Land Where "Other" People Live; The Look of Fic: 2013; FANFICTION AND WRITERS WHO DON'T WRITE FANFICTION; Conceptual Writing as Fanfiction; An Interview with Doug Wright; An Interview with Jonathan Lethem; Blurring the Lines; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; ENDNOTES; Index |
Summary |
What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature?Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It's a story about literature, community, and technology?about what stories are being told, who's telling them, how, and why. With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from Star Trek to The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, Fic sheds li |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed May 10, 2017) |
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Fan fiction -- History and criticism
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Literature and the Internet.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Fan fiction
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Literature and the Internet
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Fan.
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Schreiben
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781939529206 |
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1939529204 |
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