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Meme, Enthymeme
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| Title: | Meme, Enthymeme |
| Creator: | Laura Jacquez Valentine |
| Date(s): | July 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
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| External Links: | Wayback; WebCite |
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Meme, Enthymeme is an essay by Laura Jacquez Valentine. It discusses writing fanfic with or against fanon.
Summary: "Fanon and Fiction-as-Argument."
It was originally posted to Prospect-L and is at listen to me! listen to me! essays.
Excerpts
We have "fanon", which tells us why our readers are likely to believe. This delves into the realm of rhetoric; fanon is the set of memes that make up the fan culture of The Sentinel. (Fanon is memetic but not enthymemetic: the audience does not need to be persuaded to apply the ideas they already hold to the case at hand; they will do so without any persuasion. True enthymemetic structures require argument. More on this later.) When writing, the writer must be aware of this culture and of its rules. Why?