The Fictive And The Imaginary: Charting Literar... (2026)

The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of the Instagram Artist

: 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 The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...

: Iser suggests humans use fiction as a "subsidy" for their existence, using imagination as collateral to substantiating their activities and lives. The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of

: 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 Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...

: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it.