The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of the Instagram Artist
: Iser argues that because literature allows humans to step out of themselves and experience "otherness," it serves as a tool for self-confrontation and exploring human plasticity. The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...
: 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 Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of
: 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. This staging creates a "virtual" space where the
: 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
: 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