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Character Response

Character Response is a scholarly analytical framework within literary response theory that focuses on the interpretation and evaluation of a narrative character’s traits, motivations, and development as a central mode of engaging with a literary text.

32

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1.3K

Citations

57

Authors

33

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Publications

32

Affective responses to the emotions of a protagonist

Dolf Zillman, Joanne Cantor · Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · 1977 · 259 citations

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Character: three inquiries in literary studies

Naomi Michalowicz · Textual Practice · 2019 · 133 citations

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Difficult Empathy:The Effect of Narrative Perspective on Reader’s Engagement with a First-Person Narrator

Caspar J. Van Lissa, Marco Caracciolo, Thom van Duuren et al. · University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) · 2016 · 74 citations · Full text

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Textual and reader factors in narrative empathy: An empirical reader response study using focus groups

Carolina Fernandez-Quintanilla · Language and Literature International Journal of Stylistics · 2020 · 68 citations · Full text

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Character and reader emotions in literary texts

Katinka Dijkstra, Rolf A. Zwaan, Arthur C. Graesser et al. · Poetics · 1995 · 62 citations

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Authors

57

  1. MC
    Marco Caracciolo

    Ghent University Hospital, Belgium

    2 publications · 98 citations

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  2. MT
    Mina Tsay‐Vogel

    Boston University, United States

    2 publications · 54 citations

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  3. KM
    K. Maja Krakowiak

    University of Colorado Colorado Springs, United States

    2 publications · 54 citations

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  4. RF
    Rebecca F. McNamara

    The University of Melbourne, Australia

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. JE
    Joyce E. Many

    Georgia State University, United States

    1 publications · 55 citations

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Institutions

33

  1. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    54 citations

  2. University of Colorado Colorado Springs

    Colorado Springs, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    54 citations

  3. Royal Derby Hospital

    Derby, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

  4. University of Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    90 citations

  5. Charles University

    Prague, Czechia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  6. Leicester General Hospital

    Leicester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    88 citations

  7. University of Minnesota System

    Minneapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    31 citations

  8. Character

    Washington D.C., United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

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Venues

  1. Poetics

    2 publications · 107 citations

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  2. Evolutionary Psychology

    1 publications · 27 citations

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  3. English Studies

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  4. Journal of Reading Behavior

    JRB · 1 publications · 55 citations

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  5. Journal of Invitational Theory and Practice

    1 publications · 14 citations

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