%0 Book Section
%T Living in a fictional world: reading and identification in Lost Girls
publisher University Press of Mississippi
%D 2017
%U 9781496813312
%U 9781496813275
%@ https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134987
%X This chapter studies Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls and how it deals with another topic that is being discussed in contemporary aesthetics: identification with fictional characters. However, most philosophers hold that people cannot identify with fictional characters. When someone says that they identify with a certain fictional character, they are just wrong, or, at best, using the term in a metaphorical sense. The chapter shows how, because a given situation always has different aspects, identification happens with regard to different aspects too. It puts forward a concept called “egocentric identification,” which refers to the identifying of oneself with a fictional character, caring about them in the same way someone cares about themselves.
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