Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... conventions of notice enable authors to calculate where inattention is likely . Another relevant kind of convention is the " regularity " , a tendency for events to follow a generically defined pattern . In relatively formulaic genres ...
... conventions of notice enable authors to calculate where inattention is likely . Another relevant kind of convention is the " regularity " , a tendency for events to follow a generically defined pattern . In relatively formulaic genres ...
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Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy Ruth Scodel. deceived by the trick deserves to be deceived , so accepting the conven- tion provides a narrative reward ( poetic justice ) , and the convention has a ...
Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek Tragedy Ruth Scodel. deceived by the trick deserves to be deceived , so accepting the conven- tion provides a narrative reward ( poetic justice ) , and the convention has a ...
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... convention of inattention governs its earlier invisibility . Similarly , scholars are probably wrong in suspecting ... convention under which there is always room for new information , even when the narrative appears to leave none . In ...
... convention of inattention governs its earlier invisibility . Similarly , scholars are probably wrong in suspecting ... convention under which there is always room for new information , even when the narrative appears to leave none . In ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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