Third-person fiction enables thinking no individual experiences in everyday life

Evidence

Fiction composed in the third person (as it has been for the majority of the history of the novel) makes a kind of thinking that individuals do not experience in their everyday lives: parallel access to other people’s minds; structures of other times, other places, other sensibilities; and integrated generalities or convoked commons. — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 337

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines what third-person fiction uniquely affords: access to others’ minds and convoked commons impossible in first-person immediacy.
• XREF: connects to: People accept butterfly-effect logic in fiction but ignore it in their own lives — Andrew L. Whitehead, American Idolatry, 118