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Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Document Type
Presentation
Event Website
https://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon/mythcon-53.htm
Start Date
4-8-2024 9:00 AM
End Date
4-8-2024 9:50 AM
Description
It was not so long ago, in literary history terms, that fanfiction was left to the periphery of methods of fan interaction with their favourite properties. Fanfiction’s status ranged from something to be derided to a crime punishable by lawsuits. However, this is no longer the case, and readers of fanfiction now have a plethora of websites where they can search through works for any tropes that they may want. Nothing highlights this new liminal space between accepted and unaccepted forms of fiction than the publication of Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On. Rowell’s text is an expansion on the fanfiction world hinted at in Rowell’s “New York Times Best Seller” Fangirl. This presentation thus focuses on first highlighting the obvious the similarities between Rowell’s texts and its obvious comparator, the Harry Potter series. These similarities are most immediately visible through the similarities between Simon Snow and Harry Potter, however they run much deeper throughout the text. Following this section, this presentation discusses Carry On’s references to the fanfiction community through its usage of common tropes in the world of fanfiction. Specific tropes that this presentation highlights are “enemies to lovers,” “grumpy and sunshine,” and “forced proximity.” Finally, this presentation will highlight the way that books like Carry On act as premonition of the modern literary liminal review space, Booktok. Specifically, this final section of the presentation focuses on the prevalence of reconstructing fanfiction into published literature and what can be learned about these texts through their use of tropes that were once sequestered to the realm of fanfiction.
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Fanning the Flames of Fanfiction: Examining the Usage of Fanfiction Tropes in Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On
Minneapolis, Minnesota
It was not so long ago, in literary history terms, that fanfiction was left to the periphery of methods of fan interaction with their favourite properties. Fanfiction’s status ranged from something to be derided to a crime punishable by lawsuits. However, this is no longer the case, and readers of fanfiction now have a plethora of websites where they can search through works for any tropes that they may want. Nothing highlights this new liminal space between accepted and unaccepted forms of fiction than the publication of Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On. Rowell’s text is an expansion on the fanfiction world hinted at in Rowell’s “New York Times Best Seller” Fangirl. This presentation thus focuses on first highlighting the obvious the similarities between Rowell’s texts and its obvious comparator, the Harry Potter series. These similarities are most immediately visible through the similarities between Simon Snow and Harry Potter, however they run much deeper throughout the text. Following this section, this presentation discusses Carry On’s references to the fanfiction community through its usage of common tropes in the world of fanfiction. Specific tropes that this presentation highlights are “enemies to lovers,” “grumpy and sunshine,” and “forced proximity.” Finally, this presentation will highlight the way that books like Carry On act as premonition of the modern literary liminal review space, Booktok. Specifically, this final section of the presentation focuses on the prevalence of reconstructing fanfiction into published literature and what can be learned about these texts through their use of tropes that were once sequestered to the realm of fanfiction.
https://dc.swosu.edu/mythcon/mc53/schedule/43
