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Ua1c4/6 Fraternities Photos, Wku Archives
Ua1c4/6 Fraternities Photos, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Images of fraternity groups.
Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Bryant Medley
Ua94/6/1 Scrapbook, Bryant Medley
Student/Alumni Personal Papers
Scrapbook created by Bryant Medley during his freshman year at WKU. Includes event invitations and broadsides, awards, newspaper clippings regarding social life at WKU in 1983-1984.
Fandom Is A Way Of Life: A Folkloristic Ethnography Of Science Fiction Fandom, David Axler
Fandom Is A Way Of Life: A Folkloristic Ethnography Of Science Fiction Fandom, David Axler
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
A science fiction (“sf”) fan is an individual whose interest in this literary genre has extended past reading into involvement in such things as local science fiction clubs, fan magazines (“fanzines”), and sf conventions (“cons”). Science fiction fandom is the loosely-structured, geographically-dispersed organization of these fans. Drawing on both written sources and field interviews with eight informants, the history, composition and structure of sf fandom is examined from a folkloristic viewpoint. The forms of folklore which serve to bind the individual fan to the larger social entity of fandom are detailed.
Despite its literary orientation, fandom is primarily a social …