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Mimetic and synthetic views of characters: How readers process “people” in fiction

Merja Polvinen, +1 more
- 14 Nov 2019 - 
- Vol. 6, Iss: 1, pp 1687257
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The authors examines recent theories of fictional characters and raises the issue of how far characters can be understood with reference to human intersubjectivity, and examines the relation between characters and human subjectivity.
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This article examines recent theories of fictional characters, and raises the issue of how far characters can be understood with reference to human intersubjectivity. On the one hand, empirical res...

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