Characters in fictional worlds understanding imaginary beings in literature, film, and other media / edited by Jens Eder, Fotis Jannidis, Ralf Schneider.

Other author Eder, Jens.
Other author Jannidis, Fotis.
Other author Schneider, Ralf, 1966-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBerlin ; New York : De Gruyter,
Descriptionix, 596 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesRevisionen. Grundbegriffe der Literaturtheorie ; 3
Revisionen ; 3. UNAUTHORIZED
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.
General notePortion of the contents based on papers presented at the conference Characters in Fictional Worlds: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, held at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, ZIF) at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, February 28-March 2, 2007.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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