Desire, in this case, connotes the sexual and the intellectual, the imaginative and the appropriative: ultimately, it is the urge, on the part of the reader, to get closer to the world and ideas of the source text. In an attempt to remedy this lack, my thesis project theorizes Sherlock Holmes fanfiction as an expression of readerly desire. Explicit: Sherlock Holmes Fanfiction and Readerly Desireįanfiction is the largest literary genre about which there is virtually no scholarship.
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