Today’s Class (6/24)

Hi all! Please watch this amazing video from Lindsay Ellis on Death of the Author. I want you to think about how the communities of fanfiction are different from a single author and how that might help you better understand the distinction between adaptation and fanfic.

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Topic: Death of the Author

Instead of watching me, watch: Lindsay Ellis, “Death of the Author” 

 

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Find a Twitter of an author you like and collect their tweets:

**USE THIS LINK!Only one person at a time (try to look if someone is using the sheet)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AnU3dxehgMJNvK_BRwLg2LskPvvGmlSVws7A-x3yuRM/edit?usp=sharing

Was there a point where fans and authors clashed? Place the tweet in this google sheet

 

Homework:

  1. Read: Cornel Sandvoss, “The Death of the Reader? : Literary Theory and the Study of Texts in Popular Culture”The_Fan_Fiction_Studies_Reader
    in The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, edited by Karen Hellekson, and Kristina Busse, University of Iowa Press, 2014
  2. Post in Forums: Find a short fan fiction (or just a portion of a longer one) and talk about what it changes about the source text.

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Grant Glass

English and Comp Literature