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[cygna_hime]

So I am totally going to write my Aeneid paper on Virgil fanfic. It will be EPIC (badump-ching!).

I am debating how to handle the aca/fen distinction: I have an urge to avow Virgil-as-fandom and use fandom terms (which are much better for discussing fanfic), but on the other hand there's the problem of the teacher not knowing what this fandom thing is (I don't think), which leads to a)having to identify a whooole bunch of terms before I can get down to brass tacks, and b)appearing to be on the wrong side of the Academese Line. And though I hate the Academese Line, when I'm not sure how the person grading my paper is going to respond, discretion is kind of the better part of valor.

I think I am going to compromise by dressing it up under "transformative fiction", but citing the OTW glossary to define the term, and generally referring to fandom sources to explain why all this fanfic (because where else would I *find* discussion on what makes fandom happen?).

But still. Totally writing about fanfic for a grade. This is why Classics is an awesome field. It's fandom all the way down!

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[gehayi.livejournal.com]

Of course, Virgil himself was a fanficcer. He wrote Iliad fanfic.

[gehayi.livejournal.com]

And I think that writing your paper on Virgil fanfic is completely fantastic. I wish I'd done something like that.

[angelus7988.livejournal.com]

Would talking to Prof. Caldwell about this be constructive?

[cygna-hime.livejournal.com]

I'll probably end up doing that at some point. At the very least, she may have suggestions for other fanfic I can discuss. Funtimes.

[cotume.livejournal.com]

I just. I want to read. 8D
I took two classes on the Aeneid, one in high school and one in my second year of college, and I always wished it would be less with the straightforward translating and more with the OMG FANDOM side of it.

So yeah. I have to say, Classics was my second choice of major. But Linguistics won out. My aunt was a Classics major, though. It's an utterly spiffy field. ^^

[exrpan.livejournal.com]

Have you read Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin? It's most excellent.