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Fan Works as Reader Response

Kristina Busse

Dimensionen des Lesens

November 7, 2019

Lim, Flow (2013)

Topics

Fan Works as Reader Response

Fan Fiction as Literary Response

Fans

Sherlock Holmes

Sanguinity, Something Good (2016)

Fan Zines

Darstellung und Inszenierung von Lesen als Teil von Fan-Kultur in Social Medien

Media Fandom Online

Fan Fiction

Science Fiction vs Media Fandom

Person of Interest, Sherlock, The Mentalist

Slash

Inter- and Extra-

polating Canon

Taxonomies: Headers and Tags

Online Platforms

Elementary, House, The X-Files

1. Fans and Media Fan Culture

Literary Societies

  • fannish worlds and characters, harking back to oral storytelling
  • engaging intertextually, offering literature as critical analysis

1990s

They came to be called ‘headers’ in all online fan fiction communities; one of my points is how significant this first group was in terms of setting up templates and rules and precedents that other online groups followed. (Derecho 2008)

Usenet: alt.startrek.creative; alt.tv.x-files.creative

Mailing lists

Personal websites

Fandom-specific archives

2000s

science and technology

novels and short stories

professionalization

individual author

Fan Conventions

Pulp Science Fiction

Fanzines

http://www.trekiverse.org/FAQ/ for alt.startrek.creative

Fanfiction.net

writerly text

Livejournal.com

Reader-Writer Contract

Text: Books, Films, TV, Culture

Reading/Writing the

Self into the Text

2010s

  • Headers inform potential readers and ask them to explicitly agree that they understand what they are about to read.

“the reader [is] no longer a consumer, but a producer of the text.” (Roland Barthes, 1970)

Tumblr.com

  • The writer promises that these are the features that the story will contain and, furthermore, that it does not contain others.

Archive of our Own

  • The reader takes responsibility for her own reading experience when opening the story.

interpretive communities

2. Fan Fiction as Form of Reading

Bending Race&Gender

“made up of those who share interpretive strategies not for reading (in the conventional sense) but for writing texts, for constituting their properties and assigning their intentions.” (Stanley Fish, 1980)

Commercial Censorship on "Free" Platforms

Archive of Our Own (A03)

Reading: Analyzing, Interpreting,

& Engaging Texts

Analyzing

Characters

Adaptations

Lisztomania

Tumblr.com 2018

LiveJournal.com 2007

Fanfiction.net 2002

Pastiche

"I Want Us to Own the Goddamn Servers."

(Speranza, 2007)

psychology and sociology

TV and film

amateur pride

communal creations

  • noncommercial response to owned media properties
  • creation, distribution, reception in fan spaces

If you’re not paying for it, you're not the customer you’re the product.

Star Trek zine (1967)

Writing: Reading Critically,

Responding Creatively

copyright - fair use exemption - transformative works

3. Sherlock Holmes Fandom

Reading Collectively

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