Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays

by Kristina Busse, Karen Hellekson, Dashka Slater

Book Overview

Fans have been responding to literary works since the days of Homer's Odyssey and Euripedes' Medea. More recently, a number of science fiction, fantasy, media, and game works have found devoted fan followings. The advent of the Internet has brought these groups from relatively limited, face-to-face enterprises to easily accessible global communities, within which fan texts proliferate and are widely read and even more widely commented...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786426403
• ISBN13: 9780786426409
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: McFarland & Company
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher