Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... authorial audi- ence is not , and much of the reader's interest may arise from the diffi- culty of resolving this problem . The responses of authorial audiences are frequently the main focus of critical study . Yet a narrative that ...
... authorial audi- ence is not , and much of the reader's interest may arise from the diffi- culty of resolving this problem . The responses of authorial audiences are frequently the main focus of critical study . Yet a narrative that ...
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... authorial reader temporarily assumes the beliefs of the authorial audience , pre - Copernican astronomy , for instance , or the existence of the goddess Athena . Genres can allow for supernatural beings ( epic , Märchen , horror film ) ...
... authorial reader temporarily assumes the beliefs of the authorial audience , pre - Copernican astronomy , for instance , or the existence of the goddess Athena . Genres can allow for supernatural beings ( epic , Märchen , horror film ) ...
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... Authorial Strategies Many failures of verisimilitude are the result of inadvertence . We can safely assume that the Iliad - poet did not intend to bring a dead char- acter back to life , and William Golding has said that he simply did ...
... Authorial Strategies Many failures of verisimilitude are the result of inadvertence . We can safely assume that the Iliad - poet did not intend to bring a dead char- acter back to life , and William Golding has said that he simply did ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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