Fan fiction and early Christian writings : apocrypha, pseudepigrapha and canon
Tom De Bruin
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | ix, 199 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: 'I am a Jesus fanfic writer': Ancient fans, early Christian derivative works, and Anne Rice -- Fascination, frustration, and fixing the Gospel of Mark: Why write a derivative work? -- Nostalgia, novelty, and textual authority in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: What power does a derivative work have? -- Canonicity and the politics of canon: How do people (de-)authorize derivative works? -- Gatekeeping, heresy, infantilization, and feminization: How do people police derivative works? -- Headcanon, fanon, and the Christian transmedia storyworld: Why do derivative works matter? -- Epilogue: 'I couldn't get these legends out of my mind'.. - "What can contemporary media fandoms, like Anne Rice, Star Wars, Batman, or Sherlock Holmes, tell us about ancient Christianity? Proposing an ingenious analysis, Tom de Bruin argues that disparaging terms applied to ancient Christian derivative texts, such as fakes, forgeries or corruptions, are not sufficient to capture the production, consumption, and value of these writings. He instead suggests seeing them as analogous to contemporary fan fiction, and explores the analogies between current fan fiction and Christian pseudepigrapha, apocrypha and other secondary texts-and their limits"--
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| ISBN | 9780567706638. - 9780567706676
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