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real-person fiction en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of real person fiction.
    • A piece of real-person fiction, using Austen as a character, appeared in the Lady’s Magazine in 1823. 2020 March 11, Devoney Looser, “Austen was no plain Jane”, in National Post, volume 22, number 114, page FP12, column 5:
    • Similarly, some old rules about acceptable content, like the prohibition on real-person fiction, are falling out of favor (Waysdorf, 2015), again valorizing individual desire over existing community norms. 2018, Mel Stanfill, “The Fan Fiction Gold Rush, Generational Turnover, and the Battle for Fandom’s Soul”, in Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Scott, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, Routledge, →ISBN, part II (Technologies and Practices):
    • There are infinite possibilities for re-working popular texts, but fanfiction mostly focuses on relationships between characters, or celebrities in real-person fiction (RPF). 2019, Owen G. Parry, ““Shipping” (as) Fandom and Art Practice”, in Catherine Grant, Kate Random Love, editors, Fandom as Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers, Goldsmiths Press, →ISBN, part II (Fan Communities: From Screen to Stage to Network), page 128: