Shatrova E.D., Lasitsa L.A.
ON THE PROBLEM OF DEFINING FANFICTION GENRES ^{[№ 1 ' 2017]}
Every literary work or composition has its own genre. Genres define persistent text features such as length, theme or relation to a certain kind of literature. The system of genres that already exists in fiction cannot always be applied to the new literary movements such as fanfiction. Fanfiction is so diversified a phenomenon that the generally accepted system is not enough to classify all of its works. Therefore there is a need to create new genre classification. Fanfiction is a modern literary movement that unites amateur works based on a particular book, film, or computer game. All features represented in fiction by “genre” in fanfiction are represented by several terms at the same time: “size”, “genre”, “category”, “rating”. Genre is a group of works written on a particular topic. The term “category” represents distinct features of the text such as correspondence with the realities of original work or presence of a love line in it. Ratings system is used to evaluate the content of the text and its suitability for different age groups. The result of our research is new classification of fanfiction works. There are such genres as action, fluff, dark, angst, adventure, humor, detective genre. Categories classification is based on several features. Relation to an original work of art: prequel, sequel, POV, missing scene. Presence of a love line: gen, get, slash, RPS, RPV. Correspondence with the realities of original work: crossover, AU and work that doesn't have any discrepancies with the original and doesn't have a special term. Ratings system includes ratings from “G” (General audience) to NC-17 (No one under 17 admitted).