ISBN-13: 9780801844997 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 380 str.
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.