Why Do We Care about Literary Characters? - Vermeule, Blakey (Associate Professor, Stanford University) - Books - Johns Hopkins University Press - 9780801893605 - February 26, 2010
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Why Do We Care about Literary Characters?


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Examines the ways in which readers' experience of literature is affected by emotional attachments they form to fictional characters and how that experience then influences their social relationships in real life. This book shows that caring about literary characters is not all that different from caring about other people, especially strangers.


296 pages, 4 b&w photos

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released February 26, 2010
ISBN13 9780801893605
Publishers Johns Hopkins University Press
Pages 296
Dimensions 162 × 235 × 24 mm   ·   542 g

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