The 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.
| ISBN: | 9780801844997 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 1993 |
| Author: | Wolfgang Iser |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 380 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary theory |