Fictional Characters in Literary Theory — A Short History by Marcus HARTNER

“…This contribution to the special issue on “The Persistence of Character” provides a brief history of approaches to fictional characters in literary studies, from the emergence of structuralism to current explorations of fictional beings in the context of 4E cognition. …”
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Representation of Fictional Characters with Disabilities in Selected Crime Novels of Oͅládèͅjoͅ Òkédìjí by Oͅlálérè Adéyeͅmí

“…He identifies with the plights of a person with a disability, they are mostly victims of poverty, hunger, and crimes in the Post-colonial Nigerian society; and treats all the fictional characters with dignity and honor in line with Yorùbá thoughts and beliefs.  …”
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Immersion, médias sociaux et récit transmédiatique by Philippe Gauthier

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‘A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind’ by Jacques Pothier

“…With his rhetorical awareness, Thomas Jefferson has successfully turned himself into a character, and responses to the darker sides of this founding father have resembled that of readers expecting consistency in a fictional character. However, like a modernist character, Jefferson could be inconsistent—liberal and racist : these « contradictions » inaugurated a Southern strategy of response to criticism on race relations, which can be fruitfully compared with the discourse of Ike McCaslin in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses.…”
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Le promeneur londonien au xixe siècle : une excursion dans l’obscur by Max Duperray

“…From Charles Lamb and De Quincey to Arthur Machen and even (a little later) Virginia Woolf, among others, the figure of the invisible bohemian recalls Baudelaire’s flâneur and the fictional character writing fiction. The city is « textualised » and the Peripatetic novelist torn between alienation and contamination becomes the origin of the Sublime, as signs prevail over their referent. …”
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L’itinéraire d’Adelbert von Chamisso : de l’hybride à l’universel by Vera Gandelman-Terekhov

“…The journeys undertaken by the fictional character and Chamisso himself (his expedition on the Russian ship Rurik, 1815-1818) find their literary expression in Gedichte (1831) and Reise um die Welt (1836). …”
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La cible Marx Dormoy (1936-1941) by Franck Tison

“…They did their best to deride Montluçon’s mayor as a fictional character such as Fantômas or Dr Caligari in order to make him vulnerable. …”
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GREG HEFFLEY’S ROLE CONFUSION IN THE DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (2007): A PSYCHOSOCIAL ANALYSIS by Heri Dwi Santoso, Dwi Ario Fajar

“… Literary psychological scholars see psychological problems faced by a fictional character in a literary work as a reflection of the author’s awareness of similar phenomena that happen to a real person in real life. …”
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The Roman catastrophe of 1527 in the Italian Wars, or Sacco di Roma: analysis of the historical interpretation of the event by several contemporaries by Pavlov Kirill Vladimirovich

“…As an appendix to the study, there is a translation from Italian into Russian of Vettori’s dialog fragment by the same name “Sacco di Roma”, in which the diplomat expresses his ideas about the papacy through the mask of a fictional character – the Florentine Antonio.…”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…Though RPF remains a staple of fandom, the fans that write and read it are often moralised for their alleged misunderstanding of what constitutes a fictional character. Consequently, much of RPF studies focuses on fans’ construction of the celebrity persona. …”
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Narcos : México, représentation d’une réalité mexicaine ? by Nadia Tahir

“…These tools allow the production of the series to indicate that the drug traffickers, the majority of the protagonists, are not just fictional characters. Thus, these characters would not be stereotypes or convey stereotypes about Mexican reality since they are part of it. …”
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Worsted, Weave, and Web: The Cultural Struggles of the Fictional Knitting-Woman by Kathy REES

“…Few of these women realised their aspirations, and it was not until the late twentieth century, when knitting became recognised as an art form rather than a simple utilitarian craft, that fictional characters like Mrs Brown could achieve status and independence.…”
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ORGANIC FOOD POSITIONING: HOW DO COMPANIES WANT THEIR BRAND TO BE PERCEIVED BY CONSUMERS? by Mihai STOICA

“…Positioning bases related to consumption occasions, brand values, and association with fictional characters or celebrities play a secondary role in supporting the brand position. …”

All-Consuming Passions: Fire Metaphors in Fiction by Jonathan CHARTERIS-BLACK

“…These metaphors are employed to understand various aspects of romantic feelings including their cause, their effect and the level of intensity with which they are experienced by fictional characters. I explain how fire and heat are related through metonymy and how these are both related to fire through the force dynamic model (originally proposed by Talmy 1988 and developed in Kövecses 2000) to account for fictional representations of the passions, especially as regards variations in their intensity. …”
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Cosmopolitanism, Mobility and Hybridity in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra by Gül Kurtuluş

“…The play is set in Alexandria and Rome, foreign destinations to veil the political allegory that exists between the fictional characters and real political figures. Italy and Egypt, therefore, serve to make the audience alien to the physical sphere of the discussion and blur the most direct of these allegories. …”
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Analysis of mental spaces in Persian children stories: A cognitive approach by Reza Kheirabadi, Masumeh Kheirabadi

“…Stereotypically, fictional characters face this problem involuntarily, try to get out of it, and finally gain victory. …”
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Witnessing versus Fiction: Julia Frey’s diary of September 11, 2001 and Last Fall (2005) by Ronald Sukenick, her husband by Julia FREY

“…In their novels, Frey and Sukenick use their actual experiences of 9/11 in the same way: they displace them into a fictional structure, showing them as happening to fictional characters, and as having an impact on the novel’s plot structure. …”
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Co-designing a film showcasing the dental experiences of community returners (ex-offenders) by Joelle Booth, Joelle Booth, Heather McMullen, Andrea Rodriguez, Vanessa Muirhead

“…Participants in the first workshop designed the storyboard; community returners incorporated their own stories into fictional characters to portray their lived experiences. …”
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