Fan fiction, early Greece, and the historicity of canon

Transformative Works and Cultures

卷:21

Ahuvia Kahane¹ 

[1] Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom;

关键词: Censorship;    Epic;    Greek epigraphy;    Ontology of the work of art;    Orality;    Surplus;   

DOI  :  10.3983/twc.2016.0681

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The historicity of canon is considered with an emphasis on contemporary fan fiction and early Greek oral epic traditions. The essay explores the idea of canon by highlighting historical variance, exposing wider conceptual isomorphisms, and formulating a revised notion of canonicity. Based on an analysis of canon in early Greece, the discussion moves away from the idea of canon as a set of valued works and toward canon as a practice of containment in response to inherent states of surplus. This view of canon is applied to the practice of fan fiction, reestablishing the idea of canonicity in fluid production environments within a revised, historically specific understanding in early oral traditions on the one hand and in digital cultures and fan fiction on the other. Several examples of early epigraphic Greek texts embedded in oral environments are analyzed and assessed in terms of their implications for an understanding of fan fiction and its modern contexts.

【 授权许可】

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