Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 58
Page 9
... action by offering the reader a comparison that makes its strangeness meaningful : the pursuit is assimilated to an uncanny ( but universally human ) experience . At 22.202-4 , however , the narrator rhet- orically asks how Hector could ...
... action by offering the reader a comparison that makes its strangeness meaningful : the pursuit is assimilated to an uncanny ( but universally human ) experience . At 22.202-4 , however , the narrator rhet- orically asks how Hector could ...
Page 152
... action or a thematization of it , and it is hard to believe that it is a simple apology , since it would not have been difficult to invent a better motive . The weakness of her motives invites the audience to speculate about how she is ...
... action or a thematization of it , and it is hard to believe that it is a simple apology , since it would not have been difficult to invent a better motive . The weakness of her motives invites the audience to speculate about how she is ...
Page 187
... action . Certainly Odysseus ' motives are unknowable , since the narrator has not provided them ; but the narrator has invited the audience to guess at why both Odysseus and Homer are mystifying their audiences . At the same time ...
... action . Certainly Odysseus ' motives are unknowable , since the narrator has not provided them ; but the narrator has invited the audience to guess at why both Odysseus and Homer are mystifying their audiences . At the same time ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Achaeans Achilles action Aegisthus Aeneas Aeschylus Agamemnon Antigone Apollo apology argues Aristotle asks Athena authorial audience characters chorus Clytemnestra convention credibility Creon critics curse Cyclopes death Deianira divine drama Electra epic episode Eteocles Euripidean Euripides example expect explains fate fictional world gaps genre give gods Greek Hector Helen Hera Heracles Hermes hero Hippolytus Homeric Homeric narrative Hyllus Iliad implausible implies important inconsistencies interpretation intervention kill Laius Medea Menelaus messenger mortal motivation murder narrative audience narrator naturalization Neoptolemus Nestor Odysseus Oedipus oracle Orestes passages Patroclus Penelope Phaedra Philoctetes plausibility play plot poem poet Polynices Polyphemus Poseidon Priam problem prologue prophecy reader recognize relies rescue rule of inattention says seems Sophocles speech story suitors Telemachus tells Thebes thematic Theseus Thetis Tiresias tradition tragedians tragedy Trojans Troy University Press verisimilitude wine Women of Trachis Zeus ἀλλ γὰρ δὲ εἰ ἐν καὶ μὲν μοι τε ὡς