: 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.
: An intentional act by the author that subverts and reorganizes "the real." It is a boundary-crossing act that disrupts the referential world, making it "transgressive". The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...
: 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. : Literature "stages" the interaction between the real
The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of the Instagram Artist : Iser argues that because literature allows humans
: 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
: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it.