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 Imaginary is a distinguished work of scholarship from one of Europe's most respected and influential critics.

"A new book by Wolfgang Iser is an important event in the critical world. This one, with its wide-ranging and ambitious argument, will require the attention of everyone who thinks seriously and at all philosophically about literary culture and what it has to tell us about being human." -- Ross Chambers, University of Michigan.

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Preface
Acknowledgments
Fictionalizing Acts	p. 1
Tacit Knowledge of Fiction and Reality	p. 1
The Triad: The Real, the Fictive, and the Imaginary	p. 2
Functional Differentiation of Fictionalizing Acts: Selection, Combination, Self-Disclosure	p. 4
Renaissance Pastoralism as a Paradigm of Literary Fictionality	p. 22
Scenarios of Pastoral Poetry in Antiquity	p. 25
The Eclogue and Its Referential Reality	p. 34
The Two Worlds of the Pastoral Romance	p. 46
Literary Fictionality as Staging, Ecstasy, and Transforming Process	p. 69
Anthropological Implications: On Doubling and Totality	p. 79
Fiction Thematized in Philosophical Discourse	p. 87
Introduction: Beyond Empiricism	p. 87
Fiction as Idol: Francis Bacon and Criticism	p. 93
Fiction as Modality: Jeremy Bentham and Affirmation	p. 110
Fiction as a Transparent Posit: Hans Vaihinger and Neo-Kantian Schematism	p. 130
Fiction as Differential: Nelson Goodman and Constructivism	p. 152
The Chameleon of Cognition: Some Conclusions about Fiction	p. 164
The Imaginary	p. 171
Historical Preliminaries	p. 171
The Imagination as Faculty (Coleridge)	p. 186
The Imaginary as Act (Sartre)	p. 194
The Radical Imaginary (Castoriadis)	p. 204
Interplay between the Fictive and the Imaginary	p. 222
Excursus: Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine and Fantasy Literature	p. 238
Text Play	p. 247
The Play of Map and Territory	p. 247
The Tilting Game of Imitation and Symbolization	p. 250
Games in the Text	p. 257
Playing and Being Played	p. 273
Epilogue	p. 281
Mimesis and Performance	p. 281
Staging as an Anthropological Category	p. 296
Notes	p. 305
Index of Names	p. 343
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