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

: 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

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

The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of the Instagram Artist : The pool of mental images and fantasies within the reader

: 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 Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of

: 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 with a consisting of the real, the fictive, and the imaginary.