Hello everyone!

Almost all the essays have gone up, and I will put out a masterlist as soon as everything is posted. In the meantime, please do comment on the ones that have been posted! There are a lot of really cool essays on a bunch of different fandoms--please check them out, read, and comment.

Title: Mythical Man in a Big Blue Box: A Study of the Doctor in lizzie_marie_23s “Mythos”
Author: WingedFlight21
Summary: A study in how lizzie_marie_23's "Mythos" uses mythology as a representation of the Doctor and in the process, uses the Doctor to represent mythology. 
Recipient and Original Fic: lizzie_marie_23 and her fic, "Mythos"
A/N: I can not express how ( Read more... )

Title: History, Fantasy, and How Fanfiction Improves Both
Author: callowyn
Summary/Abstract/Thesis Statement: In which fanfiction is both a vehicle for political opinions and a way to make emotional connections with history.
Fic analyzed: Primarily Rewriting The Old Language by zempasuchil (Merlin)

( why politics in fandom? )

Title: The Eisegesis of Retelling: Susan Pevensie and the Power of Story-Telling
Author: metonomia
Summary/Abstract/Thesis Statement: Fan fic writers modify the characters and plots they seek to explore through their choices of what to keep, leave out, or change, and in animus_wyrmis’ Fairy Stories, Or Three Men Susan Never Loved, Susan does the same ( Read more... )

Title: Structure and Emotion in metonomia 's "All the Intrigue in My Mind"
Author: lizzie_marie_23 
Summary/Abstract/Thesis Statement: In this story, metonomia draws very clear lines between Ianto’s need for efficiency and his genuine affection for his team in order to reveal the source of his confusion
Recipient and links to original fic: metonomia All the Intrigue in My Mind
1350 ( Read more... )

Title: Child of a Distant Father: Sam and Dean as Telemachus and Penelope
Author: animus_wyrmis
Summary/Abstract/Thesis Statement: Through clever use of misdirection, coyotesuspect obscures a reading of her Odyssey, American in which Dean is Penelope and Sam is Telemachus and there is never any Odysseus.
Recipient and links to original fic: coyotesuspect's Odyssey, American1300 words. ( Read more... )

Title:  Deconstructing the Narnia/England dichotomy in Narnia/Inception crossover
Author: zempasuchil 
Summary/Abstract/Thesis Statement:  In WingedFlight's “Architect”, the dream/reality dichotomy introduced by Inception interacts with the Narnia/England dichotomy of the Narnia books in a way that invites comparison. Using a psychoanalytic toolkit, we may ( Read more... )