The Fictive And The Imaginary: Charting Literar... Today

: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it.

Iser replaces the binary of fiction and reality with a consisting of the real, the fictive, and the imaginary. The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...

(1993), written by influential literary critic Wolfgang Iser , is a seminal work that seeks to explain why humans have a fundamental need for literature. Iser moves beyond traditional debates of "fiction vs. reality," proposing instead that literature is a "particular form of make-believe" that reveals essential aspects of our anthropological makeup . The Triadic Relationship : Refers to the empirical world and the

: 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". and the imaginary. (1993)