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Muñoz Corcuera, Alfonso 2026-04-23T06:45:04Z 2026-04-23T06:45:04Z 2017 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 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. eng restricted access Living in a fictional world: reading and identification in Lost Girls book part