In which of the following books would you find the following arguments / observations? Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction’s apocalyptic experience of finality. The two versions of literary experience are qualitatively different; every novel fits one category or the other, not both. Serious fiction, however, compels our attention by representing improvements (the “world of potency”) as being achieved (a “world of act”) and by showing narrative movement “through time to an end, an end, we must sense even if we cannot know it.”

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In which of the following books would you find the following arguments / observations? <br /> Escapist fiction lacks serious fiction’s apocalyptic experience of finality. The two versions of literary experience are qualitatively different; every novel fits one category or the other, not both. Serious fiction, however, compels our attention by representing improvements (the “world of potency”) as being achieved (a “world of act”) and by showing narrative movement “through time to an end, an end, we must sense even if we cannot know it.”