: 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 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 The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...
: The book explores these concepts through various literary periods, ranging from Renaissance pastoralism to the works of Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre. Critical Reception : An intentional act by the author that
Iser replaces the binary of fiction and reality with a consisting of the real, the fictive, and the imaginary. and the imaginary.