Examines the ways in which readers experience of literature is affected byemotional attachments they form to fictional characters and how that experiencethen in... » 

Examines the ways in which readers experience of literature is affected byemotional attachments they form to fictional characters and how that experiencethen influences their social relationships in real life. This book shows thatcaring about literary characters is not all that different from caring aboutother people especially strangers. «