As much as I enjoy and admire bookshop's rebuttal, the general ease with which the term "fanfiction" is applied to everything from Homer to Joyce in fandom makes me slightly uncomfortable. Maybe it's the former nit-picking scholar in me, but I like my genre definitions precise (even though I know that an exact definition of a literary genre is as impossible as a precise peeriodization of a historical era). So, no, Sophocles wasn't writing "fanfic" of Greek myths in Oedious Rex, even though it wasn't "original" subject matter, either.
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Date: 2010-05-07 10:29 am (UTC)