出版社：Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales
摘要：This study focuses on the meanings fans ascribe to the death of fictional characters.
Previous research on this topic has been predominantly quantitative in nature, concerned
with correlations between the consumption of fictional narratives and people’s coping
mechanisms and attitudes. In contrast this paper provides a contextualized account of how
the mourning of fictional characters works in practice by revealing the underlying meaning
making process of this kind of grief and exploring how this is related to people’s everyday
lives. By analysing 15 in-depth interviews, this article concludes that these respondents
actively utilise fictional narratives of death for reflecting on personal loss; contemplating
unexperienced situations and feelings, and more generally, coping with the prospect of
death.
关键词：Fiction; mourning; death; parasocial relationship; everyday life
