Date: 2010-05-07 10:29 am (UTC)
As much as I enjoy and admire [livejournal.com profile] 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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