Fan studies has examined how fan fiction resists heteronormativity by challenging depictions of gender and sexuality, but to date, this inquiry has focused disproportionately on slash, to the exclusion of other genres of fan fiction. Additionally, scholars disagree about slash’s subversive effects by setting up a seemingly stable dichotomy—subversive vs. misogynistic—where one does not necessarily exist. In this project, I examine multiple genres of fan fiction—namely, slash arising from bromances; femslash from female friendships; incestuous fan fiction from dysfunctional familial relationships; and polyamorous fics. I chose fics from four televisions shows—NBC’s Revolution, MTV’s Teen Wolf, the CW’s The Vampire Diaries, and its spin-off, The Originals—and closely read them to identify patterns in their representations of gender and sexuality and how they connect to the source texts. Taking a dialogic “both/and” approach, I argue that critics claiming that slash is often not subversive are right to a point, but miss a key potential of fan fiction: its ability to evoke possibility—for new endings, relationships, and sexualities. Heteronormativity often asserts itself in endings; queerness plays in the middles and margins. So, too, does fan fiction. While some individual fics may reinforce elements of heteronormativity, many also actively question and transgress norms of gender, sexuality and love. Further, they embrace fluidity and possibility, and engage with the source texts and larger culture around them in a way that provides a subversive interpretation of both and offers insight into the function of the constructed nature of institutionalized heterosexuality.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Elaine Valencise Hidalgo de Moraes.pdf: 2405183 bytes, checksum: 9480a5e10e5211778159d46a5b0c7bc5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-12-11 / This study aims to analyse a website homepage which contains fanfictions - stories written by fans under the perspective of the socio-rhetorical analysis of textual genres. Specific objectives include: to understand the organisation of the admiring readers and writers of online fanfictions, checking how such groups might fall under the Swales (1990) concept of discourse communities, which he applies to academic communities; to outline a characterization of a fanfiction website and the existing involvement among its users; to discuss the situational context within which the digital fanfiction activities evolve; and to see if Askehave and Nielsen's (2004) bidimentional model of analysis of web files can be applied to the homepage of a fanfiction website. The corpus is the result of a research of ethnographic nature carried out on a specific fanfiction website: Fanfic Addiction. Focus falls primarily on the application of the Swales (1990) criteria of discourse communities to the website user group and on the application of Bhatia's (1993) methodology to the study of textual genres. Attention then shifts to the study of the website homepage using Askehave and Nielsen's (2004) model for digital genres. This study shows that readers and writers of Fanfic Addiction, according to Swales (1990) criteria, are a discourse community, even if they do not constitute an academic community. This study also yields other significant insights, namely the light shed on the context of production of fanfictions, the involvement between admiring readers and writers, and the historical aspects pertaining to such activity. With regards to the study of the fanfiction homepage, it was also observed the feasibility of applying to this genre of website the bidimentional model of analysis, in which the close relationship between the digital environment and textual genres is considered / Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral analisar uma homepage de um website que abriga fanfictions histórias escritas por fãs sob a perspectiva dos estudos sócio-retóricos de gêneros textuais. Dentre os objetivos específicos estão: compreender a organização de fãs leitores e escritores de fanfictions online verificando como esse grupo encaixa-se no conceito de comunidade discursiva de Swales (1990) aplicado por ele em comunidades acadêmicas; apresentar a caracterização de um website de fanfictions e o envolvimento existente entre os seus usuários; discutir o contexto situacional em que se inserem as atividades de fanfictions no meio digital; e verificar se o modelo bidimensional para a análise de documentos da web de Askehave e Nielsen (2004) aplica-se à homepage de um site de fanfictions. O corpus é resultado de uma pesquisa de cunho etnográfico, realizada em um website específico de fanfictions - Fanfic Addiction. Focalizou-se, primeiramente, a aplicação dos critérios de comunidade discursiva de Swales (1990) ao grupo dos usuários do site e a aplicação da metodologia de Bhatia (1993) para o estudo de gêneros textuais. Em seguida, procedeu-se ao estudo da homepage do site tendo em vista o modelo de Askehave e Nielsen (2004) para gêneros digitais. O estudo mostra que os leitores de escritores do Fanfic Addiction, segundo os critérios de Swales (1990), constituem uma comunidade discursiva, mesmo em se tratando de uma comunidade não acadêmica. Ainda como resultados da análise, destacam-se os esclarecimentos obtidos sobre o contexto de produção das fanfictions, o envolvimento de fãs leitores e escritores e os aspectos históricos relativos a essa atividade. Quanto ao estudo da homepage de fanfictions verificou-se ainda a viabilidade em aplicar, nesse gênero da web, o modelo bidimensional de análise em que se considera a estreita relação entre o meio digital e os gêneros textuais

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:34:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Maria Rita Barros.pdf: 1700513 bytes, checksum: 6cfc2bb46fcdbb0bc4808ea52ce867ac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This essay focuses on the production written by fans that use digital technology to upload their work, known in cyberspace as fanfics. These fans are anonymous people who submit their texts, their fanfics, to the screening of proofreaders and readers who united by the same literary taste and/or by the desire to improve their writing style feedback on, and take part in, each others´ work. A look at different cyber environments, particularly blogs and websites, reveals that fanfics have become a new type of textual creation. Our aim is to describe the universe within which fanfics, or fanfictions, exist so as to show how their shared authorship is built. Unlike school students, fanfic writers place themselves as the subject of their text, assume their authorship when they position themselves vis-a-vis a text, and, by making use of different genres, do not let the dialogue end. In order to penetrate the nature of such fans, who become authors themselves, or co-authors of an original work, we fall back on the observations made by theorists of Social Discourse Analysis. Our conclusion is that in cyberspace there is a new space for textual production, wherein it is possible to dialogue, (re) create, and for fanfics to present a smooth conception of authorship since they spring from an existing idea already accepted in the publishing universe and even by other media types. The fanfic writer places himself as a co-author of an original published work by getting hold of an idea that already exists, of a style, and starts a new game. Drawn by the voice of the original author, he seeks to emulate the same features, the same style, so as to find new players/readers who wish to share and discuss with him his authorship / Esta dissertação trata da produção escrita elaborada por fãs que usam a tecnologia digital para postarem seus textos, conhecidos no ciberespaço como fanfics. Esses fãs são pessoas anônimas que submetem seus textos, suas fanfics à apreciação de corretores e leitores que, unidos por um mesmo gosto literário e/ou por uma vontade de aprimorar o seu estilo na escrita, fazem comentários e participam da produção uns dos outros. Ao transitar por diferentes espaços virtuais, em especial blogs e websites, observamos que as fanfics se apresentam como uma nova forma de criação textual. O nosso objetivo, portanto, é descrever o universo em que encontramos as fanfics ou fanfictions, para apresentar como se constrói a sua autoria compartilhada. Diferentemente da atitude dos alunos que produzem textos na escola, o escritor de fanfics coloca-se como sujeito do seu próprio texto, assume a sua autoria quando se posiciona a respeito de uma obra e, ao fazer uso de diferentes gêneros, não deixa o diálogo acabar. Em busca de uma caracterização desse fã que se torna autor ou coautor de uma obra original- recorremos às reflexões desenvolvidas pelos teóricos da Análise Social do Discurso. Concluímos que, no ciberespaço, temos um novo espaço de construção textual, em que é possível dialogar, (re) criar e as fanfics apresentam uma concepção fluida de autoria, pois surgem a partir de uma ideia que já existe, já foi aceita pelo mercado editorial e até por outras mídias o escritor de fanfic se posiciona como um coautor de uma obra original impressa ao se apropriar de uma ideia já existente, de um estilo e inicia um novo jogo. Seduzido pela voz do autor primeiro, ele busca assumir o traço, o estilo, visando encontrar novos jogadores-leitores que queiram compartilhar, discutir com ele e a sua autoria

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Begreppet ”fan edits” betecknar filmer som klipps om av fans, vilka är missnöjda med hur en adaption för vita duken som gjorts. I min uppsats vill jag påvisa dels hur samspelet mellan fans och filmmakare/filmbolag sett och ser ut, dels försöka klargöra varför copyright/fair use är så knepigt att applicera på området.

This study examines the progress of young adult (YA) literature in the twenty-first century, as influenced by Web 2.0 social networking technology and sliding structural temporalities of age and maturity in these digital times. The context is Stephenie Meyer’s popular Twilight saga, a pioneering example of an author purposefully engaging with online social networking communities and there encouraging derivative creativity, including Twilight fan fiction. This successful integration of YA literature with Web 2.0 is considered by first appraising tensions between traditional theoretical notions of the genre (and its readers) and contemporary manifestations of the same. Second is an investigation of the genre’s evolving readership and textual practices using the Twilight series, focusing on literary activities of Digital Natives (young adults) in online social arenas. A concentration on the integration of national identity into Canadian Twilight fan fiction examines such evolving practices in reference to an American product (a threat of Americanization) being re-coded in a Canadian reader’s personal, public and online spaces.

This master's thesis will explore the ways in which the fictional and real world blends with detective stories readers. In the methodological part, the author will focus on theoretical problems associated with perception of cult literary works, readers' activity and further expansion of fictional worlds. The phenomena the author will explore are, for example, fan clubs, fan fiction, fan art, naming real entities according to fictional characters and places, and searching for fictional entities in the real world. The practical part of this thesis will be devoted to three detective stories authors - A. C. Doyle, A. Christie and M. Jennings, and their functioning as cultural phenomena both in the Czech and world context.

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Магистерская диссертация посвящена анализу тематического развертывания «сетературного» текста. В рамках исследования методом сплошной выборки выделены 1513 тематических номинаций в первых пяти главах фанфика «Искусство обнажения» по фэндому «BTS». Показано, как структурирование тематических цепочек в аспектах набора, комбинаторики и размещения способствует повышению читательского интереса к тексту. / This master’s thesis attempts at analyzing the thematic perspective of the «netrature» text. Within the study, the method of continuous sampling helped the author to identify 1513 thematic nominations in the first five chapters of the «Bangtan Boys (BTS)» fan-fiction. The structuring of thematic chains in the aspects of set, combinatorics and placement is proven to increase the reader’s interest in the text.

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