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- Title
Readers' Temperaments and Fictional Character.
- Authors
Keen, Suzanne
- Abstract
The essay discusses reader-response theory and the reader’s role in creating literary fictional worlds, focusing on the reader’s temperament in shaping a fictional character. The author discusses the ways in which theories of narratology can accommodate the reader's co-creation of fictional characters. Topics include the author's book "Empathy and the Novel," literary theorist Baruch Hochman's book "Character in Literature," and classroom applications of temperamental theory.
- Subjects
READER-response criticism; TEMPERAMENT; HOCHMAN, Baruch; ENGAGED reading; CHARACTER in Literature (Book); CHARACTER in literature; NARRATIVE paradigm theory
- Publication
New Literary History, 2011, Vol 42, Issue 2, p295
- ISSN
0028-6087
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/nlh.2011.0013