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Journal Article
Canonicity and Normativity in Massive, Serialized, Collaborative Fiction
2013
Overview
In this essay, Cook examines the practice of separating massive, serialized, collaborative fictions into canonical and noncanonical subtexts. This examination comes in three main parts. First, he briefly examines what is meant by \"massive serialized collaborative fiction\" (or MSCF) and highlight some relevant characteristics of MSCFs. Next, he provides an overview of a distinction often made within MSCFs--the canon versus noncanon divide. Finally, he determines whether there are good reasons for drawing canon versus noncanon distinctions within MSCFs. As we shall see, there are obvious practical and pragmatic reasons for drawing such distinctions, but what is more interesting is that there might be philosophically substantial reasons--that is, reasons relevant to our philosophical understanding of these works as fictions--underlying canonicity practices.
