The Theatre of the Selfie: Fictive Practices of the Instagram Artist
Iser replaces the binary of fiction and reality with a consisting of the real, the fictive, and the imaginary.
: 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.
: Refers to the empirical world and the existing social, historical, and cultural systems that circulate within it.