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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Muñoz Corcuera, Alfonso author 2017 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. 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. 9781496813312 9781496813275 10.14325/mississippi/9781496813275.003.0010 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134987 https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496813275.003.0010 https://academic.oup.com/mississippi-scholarship-online/book/22494/chapter-abstract/182801648?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://produccioncientifica.ucm.es/documentos/640cb3904531f424f87dcedc Living in a fictional world: reading and identification in Lost Girls