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Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Theories as stories: 1. Stories,theories and things; 2. Whatever happened to narratology?; 3. Is is, is id?;Part II. Stories and style: 4. A for but: Hawthorne's 'The Custom-House'; 5.Ill locutions; 6. Ill logics of irony; 7. Ill wit and sick tragedy; 8. ChengMing Chi'I'd; 9. Notes on the metre of Auden's The Age of Anxiety; Part III.Theories of stories: 10. Fiction, figment, feign; 11. Which way did they go?Thataways; 12. Palimpsest history; 13. Illusions of parody; 14. Illusions ofanti-realism; 15. A womb of one's own?; Part IV. Things?: 16. Woman assemiotic object; 17. Illiterations; 18. Ill wit and good humour; 19. Anallegory of aesthetics; References; Index.