Writing like a Fan: Fan Fiction and Medievalism in Paul C. Doherty's Canterbury Mysteries.

Author / Editor
Knight, Rhonda.

Title
Writing like a Fan: Fan Fiction and Medievalism in Paul C. Doherty's Canterbury Mysteries.

Published
Mediaevalia 36-37 (2015–16): 291-314.

Description
Describes Paul C. Doherty's seven murder mysteries based on CT, exploring them as deeply allusive appropriations rather than adaptations, and theorizing how Chaucer-adept readers of this fan fiction can achieve Lacanian jouissance as well as pleasure. Comments on elements of fan fiction in Chaucer's own writing, and describes CT as a "template" for all multi-genre narratives that involve "a group of strangers, travel, and storytelling."

Chaucer Subjects
Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion
Canterbury Tales--General