When Fictional Characters become real people
Researchers at Durham University conducted a survey of more than 1,500 readers, with about 400 providing detailed descriptions of their experiences with book. Nineteen per cent of those respondents said the voices of fictional characters stayed with them even when they weren’t reading, influencing the style and tone of their thoughts – or even speaking to them directly. For some participants it was as if a character “had started to narrate my world”, while others heard characters talking, or imagined them reacting to things going on in everyday life.
Do people bring the novel characters home with them? (This happened in Ancient Times - from Egyptian Mythology to the Habiru Monotheism).
MC 2022.
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