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

Iser replaces the binary of fiction and reality with a consisting of the real, the fictive, and the imaginary.

: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it. The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...

: Iser argues that because literature allows humans to step out of themselves and experience "otherness," it serves as a tool for self-confrontation and exploring human plasticity. Iser replaces the binary of fiction and reality