Date of Graduation
12-2016
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy in English (PhD)
Degree Level
Graduate
Department
English
Advisor/Mentor
David A. Jolliffe
Committee Member
Sean Connors
Second Committee Member
Joshua B. Smith
Keywords
Language, literature and linguistics, Composition, Fantasy, Genre, Internet discourse, Semiotics
Abstract
This dissertation reconciles academic and popular uses of the term genre, concluding that genre is a transmedial, mutable, associative, recognized system regulated through tacit understandings of prestige and power in a given Social space. The study employs a digital humanities method (dependent on digitally facilitated data analysis), conducting descriptive discourse analysis on collected online discussions from fan spaces concerning the fantasy genre and matters related to fantasy. In this way, I construct an image of the fantasy genre, and genre in general, as a multimodal space in which material freely passes between traditional and new media and participants actively negotiate their own authorities.
Citation
Cox, A. R. (2016). The Power Fantastic: How Genre Expectations Mediate Authority. Graduate Theses and Dissertations Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/etd/1822
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Communication Technology and New Media Commons, Literature in English, British Isles Commons