Date of Award
8-2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department/Program
English
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Jessica Restaino
Committee Member
Laura Nicosia
Committee Member
Daniel Bronson
Abstract
As a topic for academic focus, fan fiction provides a unique medium for studying how multiple factors intersect with and influence a writer from invention to creation through revision. The act of writing fan fiction itself provides multiple possibilities for engaging with and analyzing a source text. In addition, an interactive online fan fiction community formed and based around a specific idea becomes, not only a location for sharing common interests, but also a space for active discourse. Arguments presented in a fan fiction online community are strengthened and supported through the writings posted within its frames. My thesis studies an active Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS) online fan fiction community in order to suggest how fan fiction writing, in addition to being creative and interest-based endeavor, can also be considered analytical and critical writing. Keeping these points in mind, I suggest how fan fiction writing can apply to and has relevancy within the introduction to college writing classroom.
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Recommended Citation
Anderson, Kristen Julia, "The Rhetoric of a Buffy Fandom : A Study of Fan Writing, Interaction, and Activism in an Online Community Environment" (2011). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 719.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/719