2015 # 6 (14)
Timoshenko E.K.
Fanfiction of Community of Fans of the Harry Potterʼs Saga as a Discourse
Abstract
The article describes one of the main phenomena of Internet-literature – fanfiction – as a discourse. The fanfiction discourse consists of the ʻcanonʼ (the source for the literary creative fans’ works) and ʻfanonʼ (the complex of the authoritative fans’ interpretations of the source). We focus on the creations of the Russian ʻHarry Potterʼ fan community.
Key words
discourse, Internet-literature, fanfiction, Harry Potter, canon, fanon