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The Case for Fanfiction

Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft

By: Ashley J. Barner

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The Case for Fanfiction

Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft

By: Ashley J. Barner

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.

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1476668779

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The Case for Fanfiction

Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft

By: Ashley J. Barner

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The Case for Fanfiction

Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft

By: Ashley J. Barner

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.

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The Case for Fanfiction

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