LOL..no, i didn't write on it..i've written so many posts and comments..i'm getting exhausted addressing the same 5 ideas again and again in new guises...yes, RPF has canon..shitloads of it; no, your interpretation of the canon is *not* objective truth; no, slash is not in and of itself subversive...
but yes, i totally and wholeheartedly agree with you. as i said in the comments over there...what else do we do when reading, interpreting, and analyzing literature? i feel like i need to stuff every one of these JKR is god people in the back of my survey classes...then again, that's what you get from debating with people younger than your students (yes, that's nasty and arrogant, but frankly, i'm really, really tired of simplistic universalizing and unreflected judgments that lead to fannish fights!)
your essay, otoh, is balm on my soul. isn't the beauty of going deeper and deeper (get your mind our of the gutter, hon:) that you can and do change your mind? isn't the power of great fanfic that it allows you to see the characters in a way that differs from your personal canon reading but that somehow is not incommensurate with the text...
so, yes, a huge big word, and sorry for the grumpiness :-)
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Date: 2004-11-30 08:18 pm (UTC)but yes, i totally and wholeheartedly agree with you. as i said in the comments over there...what else do we do when reading, interpreting, and analyzing literature? i feel like i need to stuff every one of these JKR is god people in the back of my survey classes...then again, that's what you get from debating with people younger than your students (yes, that's nasty and arrogant, but frankly, i'm really, really tired of simplistic universalizing and unreflected judgments that lead to fannish fights!)
your essay, otoh, is balm on my soul. isn't the beauty of going deeper and deeper (get your mind our of the gutter, hon:) that you can and do change your mind? isn't the power of great fanfic that it allows you to see the characters in a way that differs from your personal canon reading but that somehow is not incommensurate with the text...
so, yes, a huge big word, and sorry for the grumpiness :-)