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1. “I DON’T THINK WE’VE BEEN FORMALLY INTRODUCED?” Re-contextualising a Literary Model for First Meetings through Adaptation Theory and Fan Fiction
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : (Re-)contextualising narratology in today’s world of rapid technological development and widespread access to the internet serves as the basis of this essay, which explores what happens when narratology, adaptation theory and fan fiction theory intersect and interact. It combines a surface level quantitative study with qualitative text analysis, using Rousset’s literary model from 1981 on first meetings between lovers-to-be as the narratological reference, and the first meeting between the characters Alec Lightwood and Magnus Bane as the text subject (using a corpus consisting of a novel, its official film and TV-show adaptations, and thirty fan fictions). READ MORE
