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A Hard Day’s Write: Beatles Fanfic and the Quantum of Creativity
Duffett, Mark
Duffett, Mark
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2021-03-12
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My aim in this chapter is to consider how Real Person Fiction (RPF) relates to celebrity fandom. You have to know about the Beatles to write about them. But do you also have to love them, in any dedicated sense, to pursue such literary activity? How might we discern a more nuanced picture? We tend to assume that fanfic is either a logical extension of celebrity fandom or its own category of communal activity. How might we understand fanfic in ways that do not necessarily alienate it from other fan practices, while still recognizing its specificity?
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Duffett, M. (2021). A hard day’s write: Beatles fanfic and the quantum of creativity. In K. Womack & K. O'Toole (Eds.), Fandom and the Beatles: The act you've known for all these years (pp. 189-210). Oxford University Press.
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9780190917852