Connectedness and Character
Connectedness and Character
This chapter explores the way we feel connected to others through fiction, and what part character identification plays in this process. It looks at stories used to stave off loneliness, to establish ingroups and outgroups, to help us to feel intelligent or equipped with special knowledge, as well as the values of ritual and rite-of-passage. It also covers how we can articulate our selfhood through fictive characters and broadcast our self-schemas using the stories we like, as well as roleplay, ideology and status markers.
Keywords: Character, ingroups, flattery, ritual, self-schemas, roleplay, status, authenticity, trust, gifts
Edinburgh Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs, and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us.
