Graduation Year
Spring 2014
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Department
Humanities: Interdisciplinary Studies in Culture
Reader 1
Paul Bucholz
Reader 2
Darryl A. Smith
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© 2014 Melody Strmel
Abstract
This thesis examines the traditions of textual interaction that impact the forms of reading engaged in with fanfiction. This thesis continues by exploring how self-insertion fanfiction functions as a medium through which authors express their reading of the text primary through the emotional impact of the text through wish fulfillment, and the interaction of their cultural moment and the text. Furthermore, it argues that self-insertion fanfiction is a mode of literary critique in which the author acknowledges the effect of a mediated world on their perception of self and reality. Through this recognition of a constructed self, the author rejects the attractiveness of objective analysis, allowing them to critique the work from their subject position influenced by the text.
Recommended Citation
Strmel, Melody, "Magical Me: Self-Insertion Fanfiction as Literary Critique" (2014). Scripps Senior Theses. 486.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/486
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