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

: Literature "stages" the interaction between the real and the imaginary. This staging creates a "virtual" space where the reader can bridge gaps or blanks in the text to generate meaning.

: 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 book explores these concepts through various literary periods, ranging from Renaissance pastoralism to the works of Samuel Beckett and Jean-Paul Sartre. Critical Reception : Literature "stages" the interaction between the real