here for metafandom; fascinating. am reccing! thank you!
am reading on -- one thing that strikes me immediately is that fans who write fanfic or carry on the story were only considered misbehaving in the modern era of Authorial Individuality and copyright. In the Olden Days of Yore, the material of fairy tale or the Arthur legends was fair game for anyone, and reworking and reimagining was not seen as misbehaving at all.
Of course you know all this. But I guess I got kind of hung up on the term "misbehaving".
I particularly love what you say about the author's interp, given to us through the mass media and the celebrity culture of television and even newspapers, can take over the author's own work! Or be considered a complete amalgam to it.
Tolkien did the same sort of thing, but in private correspondence that is only now getting published and compiled. So it's like you have this whole additional unfinished canon, let alone the impact of his unpublished and unfinished stuff. What's an affirmative fan to do, LOL.
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Date: 12 Jun 2010 12:37 pm (UTC)am reading on -- one thing that strikes me immediately is that fans who write fanfic or carry on the story were only considered misbehaving in the modern era of Authorial Individuality and copyright. In the Olden Days of Yore, the material of fairy tale or the Arthur legends was fair game for anyone, and reworking and reimagining was not seen as misbehaving at all.
Of course you know all this. But I guess I got kind of hung up on the term "misbehaving".
I particularly love what you say about the author's interp, given to us through the mass media and the celebrity culture of television and even newspapers, can take over the author's own work! Or be considered a complete amalgam to it.
Tolkien did the same sort of thing, but in private correspondence that is only now getting published and compiled. So it's like you have this whole additional unfinished canon, let alone the impact of his unpublished and unfinished stuff. What's an affirmative fan to do, LOL.
thanks again.