The Incredulous Reader : Literature and the Function of Disbelief /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Koelb, Clayton (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Fantasy literature > History and criticism.
Literature > Psychology.
Belief and doubt in literature.
Reader-response criticism.
Littérature fantastique > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > Psychologie.
Croyance et doute dans la littérature.
Esthétique de la réception.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
Fantasy literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
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

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