TYPOLOGICAL PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH FAN FICTION

Abstract

The article highlights typological features of the English fanfiction. The work offers a brief outline of history, main forms and modern trends in fan fiction studies as a genre of web literature. The relevance of the study of fan fiction is due, above all, to the fact that these works are a bright example of the so called live language. They reflect all modern language trends, express the musical, literary and film preferences of the society. In addition, fan fiction is an understudied phenomenon that has existed in various forms, but has received the greatest impetus in development only in recent decades. The term fan fiction is defined as a kind of creativity of fans of popular works of art, a derivative literary work based on any original work that uses its ideas of the plot and characters. It is the type of mass literature, created on the basis of a work of art by fans of this work, which do not pursue commercial purposes and are intended for reading by other fans. In the course of the research it has been established that the genre of fanfiction is a group of works written on a certain topic: Action; Adventure; Detective; Romance; Fluff; Humour; Dark; Deathfic; Angst; PWP (Plot, What Plot?). To denote all the other characteristic features of the work, the authors use the term "category". Categories classify works according to certain characteristics, in particular, according to the original source (fanfiction that corresponds to the realities of the original world, Alternative Universe and Crossover); according to the presence of a love line (General audience, Heterosexual, Slash); according to the presence of fictional characters (Original character, Self-insertion). A unique form of fan fiction is Songfic - a work based on a single song, which is quoted by the author in the story. The perspective of this study is the analysis of structural, stylistic and pragmatic features of fan fiction discourse.