RT Book, Section
T1 Living in a fictional world: reading and identification in Lost Girls
A1 Muñoz Corcuera, Alfonso
A2 McLaughlin, Jeff
AB 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.
PB University Press of Mississippi
SN 9781496813312
SN 9781496813275
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134987
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134987
LA eng
NO Muñoz-Corcuera, A. (2017). “Living in a Fictional World: Reading and Identification in Lost Girls”. In McLaughlin, J. (ed.), Graphic Novels as Philosophy (pp. 189-209). University Press of Mississippi.
NO Published: 18 August 2017.
DS Docta Complutense
RD 29 abr 2026