Description
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.
Author: Wolfgang Iser
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 03/01/1993
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.95w x 0.83d
ISBN13: 9780801844997
ISBN10: 0801844991
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory
About the Author
Wolfgang Iser, who has taught at leading universities in the United States and Europe, is currently professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Constance.