Fictions Sharing Subjectivity

Most major philosophical issues in the philosophy of art, including fiction, are due to the central role of the subjective in art. I want to clarify the nature of fiction as a means to enliven the subjective life of persons or characters. The largest group of fictions, art works, are valued for their capacity to induce, convey, in short: to share subjectivity. Counterfactuals, philosophers' fictions, too, must be subjectively plausible (Richard Wollheim). The paradigm of sharing subjectivity, also, is in a gaze exchanged between an I and a you---which exchange is, as such, irreproducible: we can represent people, but not their gazing in its reciprocity. Think of the disturbing role of the camera in photos and films. Artistic fictions seek to amend this.