Readers Internalize Fictional Characters
Readers Internalize Fictional Characters
The power of your characters!
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/14/fictional-characters-make-existential-crossings-into-real-life-study-finds
The power of your characters!
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.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/14/fictional-characters-make-existential-crossings-into-real-life-study-finds
Zara Altair your back?? so soon???
ReplyDeleteHow was the very mini vacation?
MicheleElys MER Whirlwind of contrasts. Chichen Itza was amazing. There at dawn to watch the sun over the temple.
ReplyDeleteZara Altair
ReplyDeletedid you get pictures or was that allowed??
I am surprised you are back!! hehe
MicheleElys MER Pictures coming bit by bit.
ReplyDelete