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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koelb, Clayton, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

No detailed description available for "The Incredulous Reader".

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

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ISBN:

9781501743993

1501743996

OCLC:

1110718379