The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology

by Wolfgang Iser

Book Overview

"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