Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World - Softcover

Sawyer,Andy; Jamison, Anne; Grossman, Lev

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939529190 ISBN 13: 9781939529190

Publisher: Smart Pop, 2013

Synopsis

<div>What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature?<BR><BR><I>Fic</I> is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It’s a story about literature, community, and technology about what stories are being told, who’s telling them, how, and why.<BR><BR>With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from <I>Star Trek</I> to <I>The X-Files</I> and <I>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</I> to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, <I>Fic</I> sheds light on the widely misunderstood world(s) of fanfiction not only how fanfiction is transforming the literary landscape, but how it already has.<BR><BR><I>Fic</I> features a foreword by Lev Grossman (author of <I>The Magicians</I>) and interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Doug Wright, Eurydice (Vivien Dean), and Katie Forsythe/wordstrings.<BR>
Cyndy Aleo (algonquinrt; d0tpark3r)<BR>V. Arrow (aimmyarrowshigh)<BR>Tish Beaty (his_tweet)<BR>Brad Bell<BR>Amber Benson<BR>Peter Berg (Homfrog)<BR>Kristina Busse<BR>Rachel Caine<BR>Francesca Coppa
Randi Flanagan (BellaFlan)
Jolie Fontenot
Wendy C. Fries (Atlin Merrick)
Ron Hogan<BR>Bethan Jones
Christina Lauren (Christina Hobbs/tby789 and Lauren Billings/LolaShoes)<BR>Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Rukmini Pande and Samira Nadkarni
Chris Rankin
Tiffany Reisz
Andrew Shaffer
Andy Sawyer
Heidi Tandy (Heidi8)<BR>Darren Wershler
Jules Wilkinson (missyjack)
Jen Zern (NautiBitz)<BR></div>

About this title

About the Author

<div><B>Anne Jamison</B> is associate professor of English at the University of Utah, where she teaches and writes about literature and culture from the 18th century to the present. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton and is the author of <I>Poetics en passant</I> (Palgrave, 2009), the forthcoming <I>Kafka's Other Prague</I>, and a variety of essays and articles as well as a blog about teaching fanfiction, and a lot of tweets. Her work on fanfiction has been quoted in publications from <I>The New York Review of Books</I> to <I>The Wall Street Journal</I> to <I>Entertainment Weekly</I>'s Popwatch. She lives happily in Salt Lake City in a house full of children, basset hounds, and an avant-garde poet. And yes, of course she’s written fic.</div>

Edition details

• Publisher: Smart Pop
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939529190
• ISBN 13: 9781939529190
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304