The Incredulous Reader : : Literature and the Function of Disbelief / / Clayton Koelb.
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©1984 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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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 |
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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. |