The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of the Instagram Artist
: 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 Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literar...
: Iser suggests humans use fiction as a "subsidy" for their existence, using imagination as collateral to substantiating their activities and lives. The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of
: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it. making it "transgressive".
: 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".