variations on Twilight, True blood and the vampire diaries /
Maria Lindgren Leavenworth and Malin Isaksson.
vii, 228 pages ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Transfusions, transformations, transgressions -- Single white females and sympathetic vampires: the canons -- Vampiric prosumption: archives, genres and fans' negotiations of rules -- The archive of new stories -- Interlude: The normal discussion -- Canon-transgressive lemony goodness: sexual norms and undead desires -- Something wicked this way comes: ethics, monstrosity and issues of the soul -- Conclusion: The vampire archived and re-fanged.
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"Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries have sparked off intense fan activity and generated a large quantity of fan fiction: stories which test the limits of an already Complex relationships between authorial power and subversion, between mainstream messages and individual interpretations, are examined through fanfic analyses, the findings contributing to discussions about contemporary literary creativity"--