Although fictional characters have long dominated the reception of literature, films, television programs, comics, and other media products, only recently have

Characters - those fictional agents populating the fictional worlds we spend so much time absorbed in - are ubiquitous in our lives. We track their fortunes, ju

Some of the most influential and interesting people in the world are fictional. Sherlock Holmes, Huck Finn, Pinocchio, Anna Karenina, Genji, and Superman, to na

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These new essays explore central aspects of the ethical content of literature: character, its formation, and its role in moral discernment; poetic vision in the