THE STRUCTURE OF THE IMPLICIT IMAGINARY IN THE FIRST-PERSON EMBEDDED NARRATIVE
THE STRUCTURE OF THE IMPLICIT IMAGINARY IN THE FIRST-PERSON EMBEDDED NARRATIVE

Summary/Abstract: Defined by Iser as a part of the series real-fictive-imaginary and considered an inactive potential with no intentionality of its own, imaginary needs a medium for its manifestation, created by the fictive and, for being activated, an external intervention provided by the social and historical conditions (Castoriadis), by the subject (Coleridge) or by the consciousness (Sartre). Placed in a narrative text, imaginary depends on the positions and perspectives of the narrator(s), of the character(s) and of other entities belonging to the same fictional world. In a first-embedded narrative, the narrator’s and protagonist’s imaginary are implicit, featuring each other and functioning as a core element for both the frame story and the inside story. The study intends to develop the basic structure of implicit imaginary for framed narratives which include more than one fictional world generating the reversed implicit imaginary, the related implicit imaginary and the multiple implicit imaginary.

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