Band 3: Characters in Fictional Worlds. Unterstanding Imaginary Beings in Literature, Film, and Other Media.
Eds. Jens Eder, Fotis Jannidis and Ralf Schneider. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 2010.

Content

Introduction

JENS EDER / FOTIS JANNIDIS / RALF SCHNEIDER
Characters in Fictional Worlds. An Introduction 3

I. General Topics

HENRIETTE HEIDBRINK
Fictional Characters in Literary and Media Studies. A Survey of the Research 67

MARIA E. REICHER
The Ontology of Fictional Characters 111

PATRICK COLM HOGAN
Characters and Their Plots 134

II. Characters and Characterisation in Different Media

ALAN PALMER
Social Minds in Persuasion 157

JONATHAN CULPEPER / DAN MCINTYRE
Activity Types and Characterisation in Dramatic Discourse 176

SIMONE WINKO
On the Constitution of Characters in Poetry 208

MURRAY SMITH
Engaging Characters: Further Reflections 232

JOHANNES RIIS
Implications of Paradoxical Film Characters for Our Models and Conceptualizations 259

JÖRG SCHWEINITZ
Stereotypes and the Narratological Analysis of Film Characters 276

CHRISTIAN HUCK / JENS KIEFER / CARSTEN SCHINKO
A ›Bizarre Love Triangle‹. Pop Clips, Figures of Address and the Listening Spectator 290

FREDERIK LUIS ALDAMA
Characters in Comic Books 318

HENRIETTE C. VAN VUGT / JOHAN F. HOORN / ELLY A. KONIJN
Modeling Human-Character Interactions in Virtual Space 329

III. Characters and Their Audiences

RICHARD J. GERRIG
A Moment-by-Moment Perspective on Readers' Experiences of Characters 357

CATHERINE EMMOTT / ANTHONY J. SANFORD / MARC ALEXANDER
Scenarios, Characters' Roles and Plot Status. Readers' Assumptions and Writers' Manipulations of Assumptions in Narrative Texts 377

URI MARGOLIN
From Predicates to People like Us. Kinds of Readerly Engagement with Literary Characters 400

KATJA MELLMANN
Objects of ›Empathy‹. Characters (and Other Such Things) as Psycho-Poetic Effects 416

DAVID C. GILES
Parasocial Relationships 442

IV. Characters, Culture, Identity

MARGRIT TRÖHLER
Multiple Protagonist Films. A Transcultural Everyday Practice 459

RUTH FLORACK
Ethnic Stereotypes as Elements of Character Formation 478

MARION GYMNICH
The Gender(ing) of Fictional Characters 506

V. Transtextual and Transmedial Characters

BRIAN RICHARDSON
Transtextual Characters 527

WERNER WUNDERLICH
Cenerentola Risen from the Ashes. From Fairy-Tale Heroine to Opera Figure 542

Bibliography

JENS EDER / FOTIS JANNIDIS / RALF SCHNEIDER
Characters in Fictional Worlds. A Basic Bibliography 571

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