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Fanfiction - TIL Dante Alghieri wrote a fanfic

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timystic: So, when I was doing my thesis on whether or not fanfiction should be considered a legitimate genre of literature, my advising professor asked me for examples. I gave him the generic ones, of course -"Pride & Prejudice and Zombies" is a horror fanfic of "Pride & Prejudice", "50 Shades of Grey" is an erotica fic of "Twilight" - and that seemed to make him understand what fanfiction is, but not how it's useful. So I thought about it, and, after about a minute, I said, "Paradise Lost is basically a fanfiction of the Book of Genesis. And The Divine Comedy is an epic self-insertion fic for Catholic doctrine. So, basically, you were teaching us fanfiction last semester." I had never before seen a arown man's eves widen with such fear, incomprehension, disgust, awe, and understanding Source: tjmystic 16,402 notes

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Snickerway

Aug 12, 2016 at 10:31PM EDT

In all seriousness, it's astounding how many similarities The Divine Comedy has to bad modern fanfic when you look at it. It's even got people Dante didn't like being tortured in Hell a la Coldsteel the Hedgeheg.

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Nox Lucis

Aug 13, 2016 at 03:35AM EDT in reply to Snickerway

What saves Dante is that he did this for the sake of political commentary.

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