Is fanfiction considered literature? Or does it not meet the bar?
It's the kind of thing that a young person who hasn't read much and who learned virtually nothing from 13+4 years of education will find wondrous.
literature has to be published to be literature and fanfiction isn't published this post isn't literature either it's just words
>>25338584Depends on the work. The Aeneid is both Homer fanfiction and literature.
We aren't allowed to discuss fanfiction here because it would distract us from arguing over political spam threads
>>25338595>We aren't allowed to discuss fanfiction hereThe Aeneid is fanfiction though.
>>25338607If it was published before 1931 or the author has been dead for 70 years, it is no longer fanfiction.
>>25338607Fanfiction is a legal category that exists because of intellectual property law. Anything written before the development of IP law cannot be fanfiction
>>25338584Depends on the quality, I guess, which can vary quite a bit. I only read XCOM fanfiction, because I like vipers, and would not consider it literature, except perhaps a single one that I read I think about half a decade ago (and even then, it would be low quality literature).
>>25338607No it isn't, it is based on Roman mythology. Vergil did not invent the idea of Aeneas founding the proto Roman people, that was already long believed by the Romans. The only reason Aeneas in spared in the Iliad is because the text says Zeus loves the Trojans even more than the Greeks and Aeneas will refound the race elsewhere. The Romans latches onto this probably as soon as they had contact with Homer's work
>>25338733Fanfictions are fun to read and write, obviously they're not the best of quality but who cares as long as they're fun and easy to digest. I like to read things on ao3 from time to time between my books.
It is very bad literature, just as there are bad novels that are, nonetheless, literature
i cant take literature very seriously even though i enjoy modernist nonsense's prose, and ao3 has people who like the same characters and settings i do and at that as autistically. i find more fanfic agreeable than literature although id say the majority of both is terrible (hello Sturgeon's Law!)
>>25338584Is McDonalds considered fine dining? Or does it not meet the bar?
>>25338584You tell me
Yes. In the sense that outsider art is still art, yes fanfiction is literature. It might be more spefically be considered folk art. Or a naïve art.
>>25338587Fpbp
mine is
>>25338584I think when thinking about fan fiction one thing to bring as rubric and not as don quixote were the minimum standard to literature and that many bearing were given out during the course to don quixote and one feels this were because cervantes gave some beating out whenever cervantes did not have an idea of what else to put there an also because cervantes may have witnessed more than some few beatings over the course of life and be that as that may the beating handed out during don quixote the acceptable amount of beating and that were beside the point because part to that excess were that were some side discussion to the relation that don quixote as novel has to other texts and to the text to don quixote both as self referentiality during the reading to the text as ideas words signs read during the reading to the text and the relation and situation don quixote as text and novel has historically and ideally to other pieces of art and do. don quixote then demonstrates many strategies that are possible but obviously framed to the time that cervantes was writing and here and now gonger and quevedo and sor juana were also worth mentioning as to reference point to the kind of language that cervantes was writing seeming to contain some amount to beating per page count and that then star wars the expanded universe i would contract those as texts and what some of the goals to texts and purposes to texts to get at some idea and part to this were that the sources to fan fiction were part to the sources that composed and navigated texts as texts and foucault talks about that as far ‘as what authors’ but now here was thing about what texts were and what the limits to the idea to some text or book were or something like that Don Quixote star warsc
