| Description |
ix, 596 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Revisionen. Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie ; 3 |
| Contents |
Characters in fictional worlds an introduction / Jens Eder, Fotis Jannidis, Ralf Schneider -- Fictional characters in literary and media studies a survey of the research / Henriette Heidbrink -- The ontology of fictional characters / Maria E. Reicher -- Characters and their plots / Patrick Colm Hogan -- Social minds in Persuasion / Alan Palmer -- Activity types and characterisation in dramatic discourse / Jonathan Culpepper, Dan McIntyre -- On the constitution of characters in poetry / Simone Winko -- Engaging characters further reflections / Murray Smith -- Implications of paradoxical film characters of our models and conceptualizations / Johannes Riis -- Stereotypes and the narratological analysis of film characters / Jörg Schweinitz -- A "bizarre love triangle," pop clips, figures of address and the listening spectator / Christian Huck, Jens Kiefer, Carsten Schinko -- Characters in comic books / Frederik Luis Aldama -- Modeling human-character interactions in virtual space / Henriette C. Van Vugt, Johan F. Hoorn, Elly A. Konijn -- A moment-by-moment perspective on readers' experiences of characters / Richard J. Gerrig -- Scenarios, characters' roles and plot status. Readers' assumptions and writers' manipulations of assumptions in narrative texts / Catherine Emmott, Anthony J. Sanford, Marc Alexander -- From predicates to people like us kinds of readerly engagement with literary characters / Uri Margolin -- Objects of "empathy" characters (and other such things) as psycho-poetic effects / Katja Mellmann -- Parasocial relationships / David C. Giles -- Multiple protagonist films a transcultural everyday practice / Margrit Tröhler -- Ethic stereotypes as elements of character formation / Ruth Florack -- The gender(ing) of fictional characters / Marion Gymnich -- Transtextual characters / Brian Richardson -- Cenerentola risen from the ashes from fairy-tale heroine to opera figure / Werner Wunderlich |
| Notes |
"Most of the contributions to this volume are based on papers presented and discussed at the conference "Characters in Fictional Worlds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", which was held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research of the University of Bielefeld, Germany, ... 28 February - 2 March 2007" --Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Characters and characteristics in mass media.
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Fictitious characters.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Eder, Jens.
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Jannidis, Fotis.
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Schneider, Ralf, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2010037621 |
| ISBN |
9783110232417 (acidfree paper) |
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