Queer Literary Coterie in Western BTS Fandom for the fully footnoted version, see the Google Document here! We have only to think of the troop of women and girls, all of them in love in an enthusiastically sentimental way, who crowd round a singer or pianist after his performance. It would certainly be easy forContinue reading “Parasocial Relationships, Fanfiction, and Slash”
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Keyword: Fandom
The term fandom as a constructed portmanteau of fanatic, shortened to fan, and the English suffix -dom, was first recorded in use in 1903. The definition of fanatic in particular has a strong effect on how fandom is perceived in modern use. The Oxford English Dictionary first lists fanatic as an adjective, meaning “Of anContinue reading “Keyword: Fandom”
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