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Slash as Genre

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posted on 2023-09-07, 02:02 authored by Erin Webb

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.

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Degree awarded: M.A. Literature. American University

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http://hdl.handle.net/1961/11138

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American University. Department of Literature

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  • Masters

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10043

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