Reinventing Readership: Alternative Readership in Literary Magazines, Fanfiction, and Cookbooks
Messina, Cara Marta (1); Blankenship, Avery (2); Quinn, William Reed (3)
1: Marist College; 2: Northeastern University; 3: Marist College
HTML XMLThis panel examines alternative forms of readership: readers speaking back to literary journal issues; fanfiction authors’ conflicting interpretations of the source text; and cooks staining their cookbooks. What responsibilities do researchers have towards readers, those who are still alive and those who have left their mark–sometimes literal–on texts and culture?