And The Imaginary: Charting Literar... | The Fictive

: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it.

: Iser suggests humans use fiction as a "subsidy" for their existence, using imagination as collateral to substantiating their activities and lives. The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...

The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of the Instagram Artist : Refers to the empirical world and the

: The book explores these concepts through various literary periods, ranging from Renaissance pastoralism to the works of Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre. Critical Reception : The pool of mental images and fantasies within the reader

: Literature "stages" the interaction between the real and the imaginary. This staging creates a "virtual" space where the reader can bridge gaps or blanks in the text to generate meaning.

: Iser argues that because literature allows humans to step out of themselves and experience "otherness," it serves as a tool for self-confrontation and exploring human plasticity.

: The pool of mental images and fantasies within the reader. It provides the "flesh" to fill out the fictive structures during the act of reading . Key Concepts and Themes