Slash as Genre

Erin Webb

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Publisher: American University

Published: Apr 30, 2012

Words: 20236
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Literally someone's Master's dissertation. Learned a lot about myself in the process of reading. Extremely interesting if you're a fan of the sociology of literature and genre.

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Description:

This work applies the tools of genre analysis—specifically the models for genre analysis provided by Rick Altman in The American Film Musical (1989) and Maria Antónia Coutinho and Florencia Miranda in "To Describe Genres: Problems and Strategies" (2009)—to the recurring features of slash fanfiction in order to speculate on the concerns that have underlain its folk production and circulation since the mid-1970s. It offers a text-based interpretation of a frequently grossly over-simplified body of literature; it investigates not only a particular mode of pleasure, with all the anxieties that inhere to modes of pleasure, but also a particular mode of meta-narration and critical intervention.