I AM BLOWN AWAY BY YOUR AWESOME!!! I think I read the title of your presentation somewhere and I thought it was about pedagogy for some reason, but this is SO MUCH BETTER! I love your narrative analysis of Dawn, how you've presented the Dawn/Tara friendship, and everything about your analysis of Ethan Rayne and Dawn. snickfic recently wrote some Dawn/Ethan that you should definitely check out if you haven't already. My only request is that you do some Spike/Dawn friendship analysis because I love Spike/Dawn. SO GOOD! This is part of your thesis, yes?
I will do Spike/Dawn in my analysis somewhere - what I need to do that is some really good fic.
Yes, this is a brief picture of what I want my thesis to be. Right now the plan is three chapters: (1) My analysis of Dawn as fanfiction within Canon (2) How Dawn-fanfiction backs up this analysis (3) What this tells us about the relationship between writing/canon/fanfic/community/etc
Seriously cool. Wasn't it beer_good_foamy who wrote about S7 as a narrative creating itself?
Fascinating stuff. I particularly like your linkage of Dawn with writing her own narrative. Angel is the only other character to do a voice-over (unless you count Andrew in Storyteller and Passion is all about recreating and rewriting teh narrative too.
I don't remember seeing that! MOAR research to do!
I particularly like your linkage of Dawn with writing her own narrative. Angel is the only other character to do a voice-over (unless you count Andrew in Storyteller and Passion is all about recreating and rewriting teh narrative too.
This is part of the thesis and I mentioned it briefly in my presentation at Slayage, as well. Angelus is a "villian" when he does voice-over, so his interference in the narrative is conceived of as more dangerous and his voice calls attention to Buffy's lack of power.
In my reading, Andrew and Jonathan are the "Dangerous Fan" -> they interfere too much and cause problems. Dawn is significantly different because she is both the act of revision and the object of revision - vs. Jon and Andrew who consciously and purposefully try to bend the Buffyverse to their own perspective. And/Jon = dangerous fan vs. Dawn = "harmless" Mary Sue ... the narrative works to keep her - while the characters work to evict Jon/And's influence. Jon/And also take Buffy's
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I will do Spike/Dawn in my analysis somewhere - what I need to do that is some really good fic.
Yes, this is a brief picture of what I want my thesis to be. Right now the plan is three chapters: (1) My analysis of Dawn as fanfiction within Canon (2) How Dawn-fanfiction backs up this analysis (3) What this tells us about the relationship between writing/canon/fanfic/community/etc
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Fascinating stuff. I particularly like your linkage of Dawn with writing her own narrative. Angel is the only other character to do a voice-over (unless you count Andrew in Storyteller and Passion is all about recreating and rewriting teh narrative too.
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I particularly like your linkage of Dawn with writing her own narrative. Angel is the only other character to do a voice-over (unless you count Andrew in Storyteller and Passion is all about recreating and rewriting teh narrative too.
This is part of the thesis and I mentioned it briefly in my presentation at Slayage, as well. Angelus is a "villian" when he does voice-over, so his interference in the narrative is conceived of as more dangerous and his voice calls attention to Buffy's lack of power.
In my reading, Andrew and Jonathan are the "Dangerous Fan" -> they interfere too much and cause problems. Dawn is significantly different because she is both the act of revision and the object of revision - vs. Jon and Andrew who consciously and purposefully try to bend the Buffyverse to their own perspective. And/Jon = dangerous fan vs. Dawn = "harmless" Mary Sue ... the narrative works to keep her - while the characters work to evict Jon/And's influence. Jon/And also take Buffy's ( ... )
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I LOVE DAWN, TOO!
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*blushes*
Thanks!
(liminality is an especial kink of mine!)
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