Screen LibraryCharacters in fictional worlds : understanding imaginary beings in literature, film, and other media /
Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today s diverse and at times conflic...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin ;Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have they begun to attract their due attention in literary and media theory. The book systematically surveys today s diverse and at times conflicting theoretical perspectives on fictional character, spanning research on topics such as the differences between fictional characters and real persons, the ontological status of characters, the strategies of their representation and characterization, the psychology of their reception, as well as their specific forms and constellations in - and across - different media, from the book to the internet. Trotz ihrer Dominanz f r die Rezeption von Literatur, Film, Comic und anderen Medien haben Figuren in der literatur- und medientheoretischen Diskussion lange Zeit ein Schattendasein gef hrt. Der vorliegende Band f hrt die inzwischen de |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (605pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783110232424 |
| Index Number: | P96 |
| CLC: | I042 |
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Frontmatter -- Content -- Introduction -- Characters in Fictional Worlds: An Introduction -- I General Topics -- Fictional Characters in Literary and Media Studies: A Survey of the Research -- The Ontology of Fictional Characters -- Characters and Their Plots -- II Characters and Characterisation in Different Media -- Social Minds in Persuasion -- Activity Types and Characterisation in Dramatic Discourse -- On the Constitution of Characters in Poetry -- Engaging Characters: Further Reflections -- Implications of Paradoxical Film Characters for Our Models and Conceptualizations -- Stereotypes and the Narratological Analysis of Film Characters -- A Bizarre Love Triangle : Pop Clips, Figures of Address and the Listening Spectator -- Characters in Comic Books -- Modeling Human-Character Interactionsin Virtual Space -- III Characters and Their Audiences -- A Moment-by-Moment Perspective on Readers Experiences of Characters -- Scenarios, Characters Roles and Plot Status: Readers Assumptions and Writers Manipulations of Assumptions in Narrative Texts -- From Predicates to People like Us: Kinds of Readerly Engagement with Literary Characters -- Objects of Empathy : Characters (and Other Such Things) as Psycho-Poetic Effects -- Parasocial Relationships -- IV Characters, Culture, Identity -- Multiple Protagonist Films: A Transcultural Everyday Practice -- Ethnic Stereotypes as Elements of Character Formation -- The Gender(ing) of Fictional Characters -- V Transtextual and Transmedial Characters -- Transtextual Characters -- Cenerentola Risen from the Ashes: From Fairy-Tale Heroine to Opera Figure -- Backmatter |