: 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. It provides the "flesh" to fill out the fictive structures during the act of reading . Key Concepts and Themes The Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...
: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it. : Literature "stages" the interaction between the real