Shipping in Plato's "Symposium"

Authors

  • Juliette Grace Harrisson Newman University (Birmingham, UK)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2016.0690

Keywords:

Audience analysis, Fan community, Fan fiction, Gender, Supernatural, TV

Abstract

A comparison between Achilles/Patroclus shipping in Plato's Symposium (ca. 427–347 BC) and Dean/Castiel shipping in Supernatural (2005–), asking whether slash shipping is always necessarily deliberately transgressive.

Author Biography

Juliette Grace Harrisson, Newman University (Birmingham, UK)

Lecturer in Ancient History

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Published

2016-03-15

Issue

Vol. 21 (2016)

Section

Symposium

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