What is fanfiction, and what is it not? Why does fanfiction matter? And what makes it so important to the future of literature?

Fic is a groundbreaking exploration of the history and culture of fan writing and what it means for the way we think about reading, writing, and authorship. It's a story about literature, community, and technology--about what stories are being told, who's telling them, how, and why.

With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from Star Trek to The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry...

This book explores the remarkable collaboration of one of the most prominent and successful female literary partnerships at work in the late nineteenth century; Irish authors, Edith Somerville (1858-1949) and Violet Martin/Martin Ross (1862-1915). Based on extensive and original archival research, it reorients traditional thinking about Somerville and Ross's partnership and rethinks the collaboration beyond a purely domestic and personal affair.

Examines Kafka's late writings from the perspective of the author's changing relationship with Czech language, culture, and literature. This study juxtaposes Kafka's German-language work with Czechoslovak Prague's language politics, intellectual currents, and print culture and shows how this changed cultural and linguistic landscape transformed one of the great literary minds of the last century.

Examines Kafka's late writings from the perspective of the author's changing relationship with Czech language, culture, and literature. This study juxtaposes Kafka's German-language work with Czechoslovak Prague's language politics, intellectual currents, and print culture and shows how this changed cultural and linguistic landscape transformed one of the great literary minds of the last century.