FAN FICTION AS A PHENOMENON OF READING CULTURE: BETWEEN AUTHOR AND READER
The article attempts to classify the phenomenon of fan fiction as an artifact of readers' culture. A fanfic reflects the process of mutual influence of readers' and writers' experience upon each other. “New-fangled” cultural phenomenon of the last decades in the field of paraliterature and unprofessional creativity paradoxically supports the literary and folklore traditions, forms a kind of readers' space. On the one hand, the exit of the fanfics' author to the territory of the writer of the original text compromises the secondary discourse as emphatically reminiscent one, on the other - positions the reader as a participant of the literary process, actualizes the interpretative side of reading, popularizes the reader's authority through the germination of the source text into a new literary dimension.