The Incredulous Reader : : Literature and the Function of Disbelief / / Clayton Koelb.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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