scholarly journals Wordplay, mindplay: Fan fiction and postclassical narratology

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veerle Van Steenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Reading Experience ◽  
Postclassical Narratology ◽  
Literary Techniques

Recent narrative theories on story worlds, or the worlds evoked by narratives, call attention to the process of fan reading and the role which the canon plays in that process. This paper posits that such theories can help us understand literary techniques that make a difference on the level of the reading experience that is implied by fan fiction texts. This is illustrated with a close reading of Naguabo's "The Mother of All Marriage Proposals," a Jane Austen fic.

Silvae Morales (1492)

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul White
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Moral Themes ◽  
Literary Techniques

This chapter provides a close reading of Badius’s commentary methods in an early work, the Silvae morales (1492). This is a compilation of twelve books of poetry excerpts grouped around various moral themes and accompanied by a substantial commentary. Badius’s focus was primarily on the Latin classics (the moral epigrams of pseudo­Virgil, the Odes and Epistles of Horace, the Annales of Ennius, and the satires of Juvenal and Persius); but the later books also contain works by fifteenth­century humanist authors (Mantuan’s Contra poetas, Sulpizio’s Carmen iuvenile) and some of the mainstays of the medieval grammar curriculum (Cato’s distichs and the Parabolae of Alain de Lille). The chapter focuses in particular on the literary techniques Badius used to situate his text within certain traditions, and on his manipulation of ‘silva’ symbolism throughout the work to guide the reader’s encounter with the text.

scholarly journals Fan fiction comments and their relationship to classroom learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Classroom Learning ◽  
Pleasure Reading ◽  
Web Scraping ◽  
Reader Comments

Reader comments appended to online fan fiction stories provide benefits as close reading and critical analysis tools. Fan fiction provides a space where fans can develop literary analysis skills and literacy through their interactions in comments. This multimethod study combined the interview of a fan author with various digital humanities methods to closely study the value of comments. A web scraping tool was used to collect comments, and documentary, textual, and terminological analyses were performed alongside topic modeling to assess the frequency of words associated with learning. The co-occurrence of certain words was studied to understand the assessments and analyses that readers were performing in their comments. The study found that fan fiction readers apply strategies of literary analysis to their pleasure reading.

Recepcja Jane Austen w polskojęzycznym Internecie na przykładzie stron internetowych poświęconych pisarce

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (2 (465)) ◽  
pp. 105-114
Author(s):  
Ewa Szczepkowska
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Other ◽  
Film Adaptations ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Discussion Forums ◽  
Literary Tourism ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Republic

The subject of the article is the reception of Jane Austen in the sphere of e-culture – its fragment connected to websites and discussion forums concerning the writer. The phenomenon of “Austen mania” starts in Poland mainly because of the popularity of the movies based on Jane Austen prose. These sites and forums played not only a popularizing role, spreading the knowledge about the writers’ biography, work, film adaptations, or Regency, but they also grouped the society of fans who felt the need of being close to the other readers of Austen and some virtual companion in a feminine sphere created by numerous, common interpretation of the behaviour of the heroes of her prose, and also fans’ creativity in the area of gadgets, Regency costumes and literary tourism. The other form of activity is fan fiction, slightly represented on the forums and sites, especially in the comparison to fan fiction around the work of Austen in the English-speaking circle. They are most frequently the translations from The Republic of Pemberley, not prepared, unfinished, fragmentated, or personal attempts of a romance kind, in a style of Harlequin literature and a sentimental tone.

scholarly journals Fan fiction as feminist citation: Lesbian (para)textuality in chainofclovers's "Done with the Compass, Done with the Chart" (2017)

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Margaret Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Female Desire ◽  
Compulsory Heterosexuality

A close reading of an exemplar femslash fan fic, chainofclover's "Done with the Compass, Done with the Chart" (2017), demonstrates that the language of desire it narrates for canonically heterosexual female characters is anchored by a lesbian (para)textuality. Chainofclovers takes a line from Emily Dickinson’s poem "Wild nights—Wild nights!" for the title of her fan fic for the Grace and Frankie (2015–) TV series. The author enters literary critical discourse and demonstrates feminist models of citation. The use of Dickinson, paired with similar references to the Mojave lesbian poet Natalie Diaz in the chapter epigraphs, provides a new map for the characters to follow, allowing them to travel beyond the canonical confines of compulsory heterosexuality. Just as the canonical characters Grace and Frankie refuse the requirement to cite the men in their lives, instead choosing to cite each other, chainofclovers cites lesbian poetry to imagine a narrative of female desire that is not defined by men. The story thus reflects the feminist citational model that both fan fiction and fan studies can enact, challenging traditional networks of property and ownership by producing a work founded on sustenance and gratitude.

Jane Austen fan fiction and the situated fantext

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veerle Van Steenhuyse
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Pride And Prejudice ◽  
The Republic

Building on recent findings in the field of fan fiction studies, I claim that Pamela Aidan’s Fitzwilliam Darcy, Gentleman is indirectly influenced by three cultural phenomena which centre around Jane Austen and her work. Aidan’s fan fiction text stays close to the spirit of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice because she “reimagines” the novel according to the interpretive conventions of the Republic of Pemberley, a fan community. These conventions demand respect for Austen and her novels because they are shaped by the broader, cultural conventions of Janeitism and Austen criticism. Similarly, Aidan’s text is more individualistic and “Harlequinesque” than Austen’s novel, because the Republic allows writers to reproduce the cultural reading which underlies BBC / A&E’s adaptation of Austen’s novel.

Canon Compliance and Creative Analysis in Vorkosigan Saga Fan Fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-286
Author(s):  
Kristina Busse
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
The Political ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Fan Fiction ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter examines different types of fan fiction based on the science fiction Vorkosigan novels by Lois McMaster Bujold. It explores the ways in which the source texts, or ‘canon’, are used as touchstone and tool not only to tell the stories that fan writers want to tell, but also to interpret specific characters and dynamics in the text, to interrogate the political and personal implications of the worlds of the books, and to explore how original characters can offer deeper insight into the characters and societies. The chapter examines canon-consistent stories, original characters, and slash fiction, to argue that the central focus remains the close reading and analysis of Bujold’s universe and characters, albeit in imaginative and exploratory ways.

Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alasdair Pettinger
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Frederick Douglass ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
American Slavery ◽  
History And Literature ◽  
Changing Attitudes ◽  
Literary Techniques

Frederick Douglass (1818–95) was not the only fugitive from American slavery to visit Scotland before the Civil War, but he was the best known and his impact was far-reaching. In 1846 his stunning oratory drew enthusiastic crowds from Ayr to Aberdeen who came to hear him promote his new autobiography and deliver the abolitionist message. Although the main part of the book is framed by accounts of the racist discrimination Douglass faced on both his outward and return sea voyages, it does not offer a chronological narrative of his speaking engagements in Scotland. Rather, each of the three central chapters focus on a different set of encounters with notable Scots in order to demonstrate the vital role they played in the transformation of Douglass from a subordinate envoy of a white-run abolitionist society to an independent antislavery campaigner in his own right. In particular, they prompted far-reaching changes in his styles of speaking and writing, in his choice of heroes and how he identified with them, and in the new fervour with which he attempted to control the way he was represented verbally and pictorially. Situated at the intersection of biography, history and literature, it applies literary techniques of close reading to materials normally treated as historical documents, such as letters and newspaper reports, in order to draw out the subtleties of Douglass's changing attitudes, ideas and affiliations.

Literary Form and Mentalization

2018 ◽  
pp. 494-512
Author(s):  
Elisa Galgut
Keyword(s):  
Jane Austen ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Mind Reading ◽  
Free Indirect Discourse ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Indirect Discourse ◽  
Psychological Engagement ◽  
Literary Techniques

This chapter argues that literature—or at least certain kinds of literature—facilitates mentalization. Book reading shares some of the same features as mind reading. Psychoanalysis, via the work of Hanna Segal and others, has been interested in the differences between escapist literature and literature that encourages genuine psychological engagement. This chapter engages that issue via the lens of mentalization. It focuses specifically on literary form rather than on content, and examines the ways in which some kinds of literary form facilitate mentalizing capacities. More narrowly, it shows how different kinds of literary techniques—the free indirect discourse employed by Jane Austen, the tight structure of the sonnet form—enable different mentalizing abilities and develop our capacity for self-reflection.

scholarly journals L’écoute musicale et ses enjeux dans Conversations avec le maître de Cécile Wajsbrot

Neophilologus ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Verbal Expression ◽  
Musical Listening ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Literary Techniques

Abstract Conversations avec le maître, the first volume of a series called ‘Haute mer’, is a novel about the experience of listening to music. Through conversations between a composer and an anonymous young woman, it conveys crucial aspects of musical listening and of its verbal expression. This article examines the functioning of dialogue between the two characters; moreover, it studies the relationship between creation and reception, as expressed in the novel. It also examines what is at stake in this dialogue: the power of art in its relation to reality, to History. How may music become the echo of contemporary catastrophes? The article offers a close reading of the novel’s descriptions of listening to music: what literary techniques enable the author to put it into words?

The Experimental Turn

PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-187
Author(s):  
Katharine Coles
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Computational Tool ◽  
Reading Experience

From 2012 to 2017, I Collaborated with the Visualization Scientists Miriah Meyer and Nina Mccurdy and the Poet Julie Gonnering Lein to develop Poemage, a computational tool that identifies and visualizes complex sonic relationships in poems. The scientists sought problems that would allow them to develop breakthrough computational strategies, frameworks, or paradigms. Lein and I, the poets, realizing that much digital humanities research at the time was driven by technology and the desire to extract data from texts, remained committed to engaging the qualitative, aesthetic, close-reading experience that is central to our work.

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