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Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media (Revisionen): 3 - Hardcover

 
9783110232417: Characters in Fictional Worlds: Understanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media (Revisionen): 3

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Jens Eder, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Fotis Jannidis, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg; Ralf Schneider, Universität Bielefeld.

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The volume Regeln der Bedeutung ('Rules of meaning') marks the launch of REVISIONEN, a projected series of some eight volumes on basic concepts of literary theory. The series aims to reflect on central concepts of literary studies which have become questionable or problematic in the course of recent debates and to open up new perspectives on them in order to make them available for research in a new manner. Such concepts include, for example, 'meaning', 'literature', 'interpretation'. The series takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing not only on literary theory but also on art history, music, philosophy, linguistics, and psychology.

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