Author: Koelb, Clayton
Title: The Incredulous Reader. Literature & the Function of Disbelief
Description: Ithaca, Cornell University Press, (1984). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, 240 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Disbelief & Untruth: Literature & Incredulity; The Taxonomy of Untruth; The Imitation of Language: Logomimesis in David Gerrold & Thomas Mann; The Lethetic Genre: The Rhetoric of Unreality: Aristophanes' 'Birds';Incredible Joinings: Syllepsis in Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Nye; Incredible Sunderings: Dialepsis in Christian Morgenstern, Nicolai Gogol, and Edgar Allan Poe; The Lethetic Mode: The Oblivious Reader: Lucian & Edgar Allan Poe; The Text as Propulsive Charge: Italo Calvino; The Origins of Alethetic Reading: Reading as Possession: Influence & Inspiration; Plato & the Sacralization of Fiction; Conclusion: The Place of Lethetic Reading.

Keywords: Literary criticism, Reader-response, Critical theory, Lethetic fiction, Comparative, Fantasy, Literature, ,