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Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Fiction; Formative Fictions; The Temporality of the Reading Experience; In Spite of Everything, a Role for Meaning; A Polite Aside to Historians; The Value of Formative Fictions; PART ONE-CLEARING THE GROUND; Chapter One-Chaucer: Ambiguity and Ethics; Prudence or Oneiromancy?; A Parody of Didacticism; Preaching to the Converted; The Asymmetry of ’Imaginative Resistance’; Virtue Ethics and Gossip; Qualifications; Positive Views; PART TWO- ENCHANTMENT AND RE-ENCHANTMENT; Chapter Two-Mark: Metaphor and Faith; Rhetorical Theories; Five Variables, Six Readings; Deliberate Opacity; The Vision of Mark; From Him Who Has Not; To Him Who Has; The Syrophenician Woman; The Formative Circle; Metaphor and Faith; Theological Ramifications; A Parable about Parables; Getting It Wrong By Getting It Right; Coda: The Secular Kingdom; Appendix: Le Cygne; Chapter Three-Mallarme: Irony and Enchantment; Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin; Exorcisms and Experiments; Science and Wonder; Lucid Illusions; Stephane Mallarme; The Spell of Poetry; Setting the Scene; A Replacement Faith; How to Do Things with Verses; A Corner of Order; The Magic of Rhyme; A Training in Enchantment; A Sequence of States; The Birth of Modernism from the Spirit of Re-Enchantment; PART THREE-LOGIC AND ANTI-LOGIC; Chapter Four-Plato: Fallacy and Logic; A Platonic Coccyx; Ascent and Dissent; The Developmental Hypothesis; Dubious Dialectic; Pericles, Socrates and Plato; The Gorgias Unravels; The Uses of Oratory; Was Gorgias Refuted?; Spiritual Exercises: Seven Points in Conclusion; Appendix: Just How Bad is the Pericles Argument?; Chapter Five-Beckett: Antithesis and Tranquillity; Bringing Philosophy to an End; Ataraxia; Antilogoi; One Step Forward; Finding the Self to Lose the Self; An Irreducible Singleness; Res Cogitans; Solutions and Dissolutions; Two Failures; I confess, I give in, there is I; Negative Anthropology; The Beckettian Spiral; An End to Everything?; Fail Better; Glimpses of the Ideal; Two Caveats; Coda; Works Cited

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