In his collection, "Prospecting", Wolfgang Iser first set forth the new area of critical inquiry which he termed literary anthropology. Now, in "The Fictive and the Imaginary", Iser presents an exploration of this new field in an attempt to explain the human need for the "particular form of make-believe" known as literature. The text ranges from the Renaissance pastoral to Coleridge to Sartre and Beckett.
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"A new book by Wolfgang Iser is an important event in the critical world. This one, with its wide-ranging and ambitious argument, will require the attention of everyone who thinks seriously and at all philosophically about literary culture and what it has to tell us about being human."--Ross Chambers, University of Michigan "Superb in its analysis of many scholarly sources."--'Southern Humanities Review' "Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--'TLS'
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-0-8018-4498-0 (9780801844980)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Wolfgang Iser, who has taught at leading universities in the United States and Europe, is currently professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Constance.
