Framing Fan Fiction Literary And Social Practices In Fan Fiction Communities Kristina Busse by Kristina Busse 9781609385149, 1609385144 instant download after payment.

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 & cultural documents. Drawing examples from a multitude of fan communities and texts, Busse frames fan fiction in three key ways: as individual & collective erotic engagement; as a shared interpretive practice in which tropes constitute shared creative markers & illustrate the complexity of fan creations; & as a point of contention around which community conflicts over ethics play out. Moving between close readings of individual texts & fannish tropes on the one hand, & 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. 

Framing Fan Fiction deploys personal history & the interpretations of specific stories to contextualize fan fiction culture & its particular forms of intertextuality & performativity. In doing so, it highlights the way fans use fan fiction's reimagining of the source material to explore issues of identities & peformativities, gender & sexualities, within a community of like-minded people. In contrast to the celebration of originality in many other areas of artistic endeavor, fan fiction celebrates repetition, especially the collective creation & circulation of tropes. An essential resource for scholars, Framing Fan Fiction is also an ideal starting point for those new to the study of fan fiction & its communities of writers.