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Canon is closed. Long live fanon!
In one sense no text is finished, since its potential range is always being extended to every additional reader.--Edward Said*
Make that: "... BY every additional reader."
*Edward Said, 'Roads Taken and Not Taken in Contemporary Criticism', The World, the Text and the Critic, London:Vintage, 1991, p. 157. -
BWB & Call for Investigation (Cut for Spoilers)
So much good meta on this last book! I'm loving the fast and insightful comments (WITH SPOILERS) by bethbethbeth, amanuensis1, erastes, catrinella (ultra-funny!), celandineb, maeglinyedi, musigneus, atdelphi, and many in lupin_snape and other places listed at The Daily Snitch. What a fitting tribute to the book and the series.
And already with the fanfic! (RIFE with SPOILERS) snape_potter has some great new chapters for the Potterverse, and ( Read more... ) -
When is a spoiler a spoiler? (NYT)
It’s silly to insist that the critic never spoil. In practice, spoilers can be irresponsible, motivated by laziness, vindictiveness or snark, but if the ambition to inform the reader outweighs the need to protect them, then spoilers are warranted on principle. The integrity of the critic doesn’t revolve around whether or not they’re willing to ( Read more... ) -
6A's convenient timing: their fandom love/hate story (cont'd)
Right. So while I was being overwhelmed with work and the fascination of the rather major HPDH spoilers, 6A has decided once again to post their usual inarticulate sequence of "We've worked out a policy" followed by "A little clarification" followed by "No really, *this* should make it clear ( Read more... ) -
DH spoilers bunnied me
I'm eagerly awaiting my very own copy and a Saturday of reading. Followed by two weeks of reading internet howls of glee and/or despair. And then ... then things will actually get interesting as despite JKR's efforts to tie up, pin down, and rivet every plot point and relationship into exactly one and only one shape, fans will find a way to put ( Read more... ) -
Fantasy ... er, medieval ... studies: The view from Higher Ed
Knights of the Faculty Lounge
From The Chronicle of Higher Ed, July 6, 2007"Commercial medievalism." Many academic medievalists view the popular interest in the Middle Ages not as an embarrassment of riches, but as a plain embarrassment ( Read more... ) -
Book meme
(Gacked from elfwreck) 1. Grab the nearest book ( Read more... ) -
And now for the pictures!
This is insanely funny and wow, what a lot of work tkp did, to come up with these!
Pictorial Log of the wait for 6A/LJ's explanation (warning; large files)
My favorite runner-up for grand winner is the LJ Threat Level depiction from quizzicalsphinx.
But the rest, omg. I | them all and this whole wacky wonderful assemblage. Go see. -
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elements has posted an intensely good essay on "User Generated Content" & Ownership: The User as Citizen and invites all to link to it and comment.
"My relationship to Livejournal is not merely a one-to-one contract between myself as an individual and the company Six Apart. It's first and foremost a relationship between myself the member and Livejournal ( Read more... )
