The fictive and the imaginary : charting literary anthropology - Iser, Wolfgang (Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993)
One. Fictionalizing acts :
Tacit knowledge of fiction and reality -- The triad: the real, the fictive, and the imaginary -- Functional differentiation of fictionalizing acts: selection, combination, self-disclosure.

Two. Renaissance pastoralism as a paradigm of literary fictionality :
Scenarios of pastoral poetry in Antiquity -- The eclogue and its referential reality -- The two worlds of the pastoral romance -- Literary fictionality as staging, ecstasy, and transforming process -- Anthropological implications: on doubling and totality.

Three. Fiction thematized in philosophical discourse :
Introduction: beyond empiricism -- Fiction as idol: Francis Bacon and criticism -- Fiction as modality: Jerema Bentham and affirmation -- Fiction as a transparent posit: Hans Vaihinger and Neo-Kantian schematism -- Fiction as differential: Nelson Goodman and constructivism -- The chameleon of cognition: some conclusions about fiction.

Four. The imaginary :
historical preliminaries -- The imagination as faculty (Coleridge) -- The imaginary as act (Sartre) -- The radical imaginary (Castoriadis) -- Interplay between the fictive and the imaginary -- Excursus: Beckett's 'Imagination dead imagine' and fantasy literature.

Five. The play :
The play of map and territory -- The tilting game of imitation and symbolization -- Games in the text -- Playing and being played.

Six. Epilogue :
Mimesis and performance -- Staging as an anthropological category
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Keywords: Fiction -- History and criticism; Fictions, Theory of; Imagination (Philosophy).; Imagination in literature; fikcija; teorija književnosti -- fikcija; imaginacija -- filozofija