The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology

By Wolfgang Iser

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801844991
• ISBN13: 9780801844997
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher