Fanfiction in Medieval Studies: What Do We Mean When We Say "Fanfiction"?
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Anna Wilson
Organizer Affiliation
Univ. of Toronto
Presider Name
Anna Wilson
Paper Title 1
Fanfic: The Impossible Gift?
Presenter 1 Name
Kristin Noone
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Irvine Valley College
Paper Title 2
Republics of Games: Literary Culture and Game Structures before and after Print
Presenter 2 Name
Elyse Graham
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Stony Brook Univ.
Paper Title 3
A Gawain of Our Own: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Canonicity, and Audience Participation
Presenter 3 Name
Angela Florschuetz
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Cheyney Univ.
Paper Title 4
Writing Her Own Deliverance: Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies as Reclamatory Fan Work
Presenter 4 Name
Elizabeth J. Nielsen
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst
Start Date
11-5-2017 7:30 PM
Session Location
Bernhard 208
Description
The papers in “What Do We Mean When We Say Fanfiction?” will discuss medieval texts and practices with reflection on the following questions: what characterises fanfiction or fandom before the rise of the technologies - the printing press, the photocopier, the internet - without which it is impossible to imagine modern fandom? is it the intensity of readerly affect? the mere fact of rewriting or reinterpretation of a pre-existing text? resemblance to modern fanfiction tropes? the existence of a ‘virtual community’ of readers? How might using the term ‘fanfiction’ occlude or erase important details of the way medieval readers experienced texts? How might it bring to the fore elements previously neglected?
Anna P. Wilson
Fanfiction in Medieval Studies: What Do We Mean When We Say "Fanfiction"?
Bernhard 208
The papers in “What Do We Mean When We Say Fanfiction?” will discuss medieval texts and practices with reflection on the following questions: what characterises fanfiction or fandom before the rise of the technologies - the printing press, the photocopier, the internet - without which it is impossible to imagine modern fandom? is it the intensity of readerly affect? the mere fact of rewriting or reinterpretation of a pre-existing text? resemblance to modern fanfiction tropes? the existence of a ‘virtual community’ of readers? How might using the term ‘fanfiction’ occlude or erase important details of the way medieval readers experienced texts? How might it bring to the fore elements previously neglected?
Anna P. Wilson