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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