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Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fan fiction-a genre criticized as tasteless and derivative-and other
guilty pleasure
reading (and writing) including romance and fantasy. The complicated relationship between
fanfic
and intellectual property is discussed in light of the millennia-old tradition of derivative literature, before modern copyright law established originality as the hallmark of great fiction.
Absorbed reading -the practice of immersing oneself in the narrative versus critically
reading from a distance -is a strong motive for fanfiction’s appropriation of canon characters and worlds.
