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[iceinyourmusic]

Too lazy to organize this jumble of thoughts in my head, but I've been thinking about the notion of canon again - and fanon, since the two seem interchangeable in certain respects - and readers - what do we think of canon in relation to the reader of a piece of fic? Part-defining canon for a specific story as the fandom-specific information the implied reader would possess, or what-not. Do we do that? And somehow it connects to the different degrees of dependence on canon in different (but possibly still equally canonically "accurate") stories, and possibly also to the canon-as-facts and canon-as-implied-by-facts thing. and. I'd like to juggle this a bit, but there's nothing about canon that hasn't already been said a hundred times over, and my meta-brain is rusty, and none of the kids will come out to play. Does anyone know where I might find someone else's take on the issue, though?

(Feh. I have a mind full of cotton-wool again. Friggin' intertextuality.)

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[mandysbitch.livejournal.com]

Does anyone know where I might find someone else's take on the issue, though?

Hey - as it happens I have an article on this subject. As yet unpublished - but this guy let me have a read of it in draft form and I then gave me a copy of the final version when I asked if it was published yet.

He's a really interesting chap - when he's not writing about fanfiction he's writing about porn. And he's written a book on Australian television that isn't a critique.

If you like I can email you a copy. He sums up everything I would say on the subject about the supposed distinction between canon and fanon.

[leksa.livejournal.com]

If you like I can email you a copy.

Would you, please? I'd love to read it.