Article

Name: Fanfiction as Apocryphal Literature and Postmodern Myth

Authors: Uliana S. Alekseeva, Timofey D. Alekseev

Siberian Transport University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

Abstract: The article addresses the problem of fan fiction as a source of autonomous writing practice in Russian fan communities. Resources under study include litres.ru, samlib.ru, and prodaman.ru platforms, specifically the user-acclaimed publications of “A Song of Ice and Fire” and “Harry Potter” fandoms. Fandoms are hypothesized to emerge as readers’ communities that produce apocrypha over post-modern axiology and evolve into writers’ environments that produce original authors outside the endogenous institutions of mass literature.

Keywords: fanfiction, canon, reader, mass literature, apocrypha, myth, writer, postmodernity

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