Fanfic Symposium: Cross Fertilization of Fan and Professional Writing - The Diigo Meta page

• 29 May 08
  

  Nele Noppe

  fan_fiction literature language narrative phd phd_unfinished

  • The prevalence of such curious language use led me to think that fan-writers must have influenced one another’s diction because they read so much of one another’s writing, with the result that they incorporated the idiosyncratic as the norm.
  • These are only surface manifestations.  There are deeper phenomena.  The foremost is that the world inhabited by the characters in some fan fiction reflects the limited experiences of the writers. 
  • There is nothing wrong with this if the characters are from the American middle class.  Unfortunately, many popular shows feature people not acculturated in such a milieu—Methos, Duncan MacCleod of the Clan MacCleod, Benton Fraser, Harry Potter, Snape, Tom Paris, Chakotay, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon. . . .  Consequently, the specter of these characters spouting psychobabble is disconcerting, to say the very least.

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