The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary AnthropologyThe pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field in an attempt to explain the human need for the "particular form of make-believe" known as literature. Ranging from the Renaissance pastoral to Coleridge to Sartre and Beckett, The Fictive and the Imaginary is a distinguished work of scholarship from one of Europe's most respected and influential critics. |
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Contents
TWO Renaissance Pastoralism as a Paradigm | 22 |
THREE Fiction Thematized in Philosophical Discourse | 87 |
Some Conclusions about Fiction | 164 |
FOUR The Imaginary | 171 |
FIVE Text Play | 247 |
of Imitation and Symbolization 250 Games in | 273 |
SIX Epilogue | 281 |
NOTES | 305 |
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