The Incredulous Reader : : Literature and the Function of Disbelief / / Clayton Koelb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Koelb, Clayton,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Part One. Disbelief and Untruth --; Chapter 1. Literature and Incredulity --; Chapter 2. A Taxonomy of Untruth --; Chapter 3. The Imitation of Language: Logomimesis in David Gerrold and Thomas Mann --; Part Two. The Lethetic Genre --; Chapter 4. The Rhetoric of Unreality: Aristophanes' Birds --; Chapter 5. Incredible Joinings: Syllepsis in Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Nye --; Chapter 6. Incredible Sunderings: Dialepsis in Christian Morgenstern, Nicolai Gogol, and Edgar Allan Poe --; Part Three. The Lethetic Mode --; Chapter 7. The Oblivious Reader: Lucian and Edgar Allan Poe --; Chapter 8. The Text as Propulsive Charge: Italo Calvino --; Part Four. The Origins of Alethetic Reading --; Chapter 9. Reading as Possession: Influence and Inspiration --; Chapter 10. Plato and the Sacralization of Fiction --; Part Five. Conclusion --; Chapter 11. The Place of Lethetic Reading --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501743993; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501743993
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Clayton Koelb.