Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-341) and index.
Fictionalizing acts -- Renaissance pastoralism as a paradigm of literary fictionality -- Fiction thematized in philosophical discourse -- The imaginary -- Text play -- Epilogue.
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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.