The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology

by Wolfgang Iser

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"Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--Terence Cave, TLS 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801844983

ISBN13:9780801844980

Release Date:March 1993

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:378 Pages

Weight:1.48 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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