Bloomsbury Publishing
Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings : Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon
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9780567706638
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9780567706638
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$135.22
What can contemporary media fandoms, like Anne Rice, Star Wars, Batman, or Sherlock Holmes, tell us about ancient Christianity? Proposing an ingenious analysis, Tom de Bruin argues that disparaging terms applied to ancient Christian derivative texts, such as fakes, forgeries or corruptions, are not sufficient to capture the production, consumption, and value of these writings. He instead suggests seeing them as analogous to contemporary fan fiction, and explores the analogies between current fan fiction and Christian pseudepigrapha, apocrypha and other secondary texts-and their limits--
| Author: Tom de Bruin |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication Date: Jun 13, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 217 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 056770663X |
| ISBN-13: 9780567706638 |
Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings : Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon
$135.22
What can contemporary media fandoms, like Anne Rice, Star Wars, Batman, or Sherlock Holmes, tell us about ancient Christianity? Proposing an ingenious analysis, Tom de Bruin argues that disparaging terms applied to ancient Christian derivative texts, such as fakes, forgeries or corruptions, are not sufficient to capture the production, consumption, and value of these writings. He instead suggests seeing them as analogous to contemporary fan fiction, and explores the analogies between current fan fiction and Christian pseudepigrapha, apocrypha and other secondary texts-and their limits--
| Author: Tom de Bruin |
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Publication Date: Jun 13, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 217 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 056770663X |
| ISBN-13: 9780567706638 |
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