Framing Fan Fiction Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities [#461432]

Kristina Busse, "Framing Fan Fiction: Literary and Social Practices in Fan Fiction Communities"
English | 2017 | pages: 263 | ISBN: 1609385144 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Gathering some of Kristina Busse's essential essays on fan fiction together with new work, Framing Fan Fiction argues that understanding media fandom requires combining literary theory with cultural studies because fan artifacts are both artistic works and cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key ways: as individual and collective erotic engagement; as a shared interpretive practice in which tropes constitute shared creative markers and illustrate the complexity of fan creations; and as a point of contention around which community conflicts over ethics play out. Moving between close readings of individual texts and fannish tropes on the one hand, and the highly intertextual embeddedness of these communal creations on the other, the book demonstrates that fan fiction is simultaneously a literary and a social practice.