From: World Literature Today | Date: March 22, 1994| Author: Rudnick, Hans H. | COPYRIGHT 1994 University of Oklahoma. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

As an exercise in pussyfooting around the issue of reality and fiction and in pretending to deal with the two cultures that separate logocentric and artistic pursuit, Wolfgang Iser's latest book, The Fictive and the Imaginary, unleashes a barrage of jargon which tries to bridge the rift by thinking that resorting to the Anglo-Saxon philosophical tradition might help overcome Kant and Vaihinger's unsatisfactory understanding of literature as an "as if" statement. Phenomenology, which-...