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Project

The Construstion and Experience of Fiction Worlds in Jane Austen Fan Fiction
Code
3F026211
Duration
01 October 2011 → 30 September 2015
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
fan fiction narratology Jane Austen fictional world immersion 18th Century 19th Century 20th Century English literature Fictionality Reception studies Literary studies
 
Project description
 

This project studies a corpus of Pride and Prejudice fan fiction (i.e. stories which are based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice) and reader responses to refine postclassical narrative theories on the construction of fictional worlds and the experience of immersion (a reading experience during which the fictional world feels as real as a text-independent reality).