Analysis (of sorts): Legends of a Fall (etc) by wyncatastrophe (1/3)

[elizabeth_hoot]

I've mostly lurked here, but I recently did an audio commentary on wyncatastrophe's Legends of a Fall, Introduction to the Museum Studies Edition - not planned, just whatever entered my head as I read it (so, lots about my personal tastes, not a lot of rigorous analysis) - and she thought it would be appropriate to the community here. So here's the first part,

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[wyncatastrophe]

Mostly stuff that I said before. The metafic I wrote yesterday (better version on AO3) responds to some of the disciplinary concerns - i.e., the project was not originally intended to look like a work of historiography, but one of old-style (late nineteenth-century) folklore, which threaded together history-in-story (where did these legends come from, anyway?), linguistics (the field was invented largely by philologists), and what would eventually become English (demonstrating an interest in textual concerns in a vernacular language). I think it's interesting that History is where you went with it. Certainly the pieces I have posted (Introductions to two different editions and a Preface) bear that out more strongly than the other materials I have planned may do

[elizabeth_hoot]

AO3 sent me an alert about the metafic! I ... also cackled, but yes, now I see what you were doing. And really, the title "Legends of a Fall" should probably have been a clue - I was focusing more on the "museum edition" part. And I do think the bits you've posted so far lean heavily to the history side. (Partly it may just be my own bias - for me pseudo-academia has always been history specifically.)

I can definitely see why you deal w/ the EU the way you do - it's odd, because there are others that use it in a fairly critical way (say, irnan) and I wasn't surprised, but I was quite startled when I realized this was - I'm not sure why