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

: The pool of mental images and fantasies within the reader. It provides the "flesh" to fill out the fictive structures during the act of reading . Key Concepts and Themes

Iser replaces the binary of fiction and reality with a consisting of the real, the fictive, and the imaginary. 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. : The pool of mental images and fantasies within the reader