The Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (RCCS) recently reviewed Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet: New Essays, edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse (McFarland, 2006). The reviewer, MIT’s Lan Xuan Le, makes a special mention of my essay “Archontic Literature”
Abigail Derecho’s essay, “Archontic Literature: A Definition, a History, and Several Theories of Fan Fiction,” is an especially provocative model of texts as essentially archives that house infinite iterations of a story through successive (re)reading and (re)interpretation. Imagined within the context of communities of readership, the model of archontic texts suggests processes of public curatorship and collective annotation of communal fan texts may occur in online communities.
Here is a link to the full review: http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?BookID=390&ReviewID=542
And here is a link to Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse’s response to the review: http://rccs.usfca.edu/bookinfo.asp?BookID=390&AuthorID=137
Thanks, RCCS and Lan Xuan Le!!
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