| Author/Contributor(s): | Iser, Wolfgang |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Date: | 03/01/1993 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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.