The Case for Fanfiction Exploring the Pleasures and Practices of a Maligned Craft

"Challenging readers to rethink what they read and why, the author questions the aesthetic assumptions that have led to the devaluing of fan fiction and other "guilty pleasure" reading (and writing) including romance and fantasy. The complicated relationship between "fanfic" and intellectual property is discussed in light of the millennia-old tradition of derivative literature"--