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 | $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 |
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| 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 |
| Accessibility | Learn more |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Publication date | July 25, 2017 |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
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