Frontmatter -- Content -- Characters in Fictional Worlds -- Fictional Characters in Literary and Media Studies -- The Ontology of Fictional Characters -- Characters and Their Plots -- Social Minds in Persuasion -- Activity Types and Characterisation in Dramatic Discourse -- On the Constitution of Characters in Poetry -- Engaging Characters: Further Reflections -- Implications of Paradoxical Film Characters for Our Models and Conceptualizations -- Stereotypes and the Narratological Analysis of Film Characters -- A ›Bizarre Love Triangle‹ -- Characters in Comic Books -- Modeling Human-Character Interactionsin Virtual Space -- A Moment-by-Moment Perspective on Readers' Experiences of Characters -- Scenarios, Characters' Roles and Plot Status -- From Predicates to People like Us -- Objects of ›Empathy‹ -- Parasocial Relationships -- Multiple Protagonist Films -- Ethnic Stereotypes as Elements of Character Formation -- The Gender(ing) of Fictional Characters -- Transtextual Characters -- Cenerentola Risen from the Ashes -- Backmatter.

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 todayś 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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