Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... epic and tragedy . At its center , therefore , will be mimetic flaws , inconsistencies and implausibilities of character and plot ; the authorial strategies that attempt to mitigate these flaws ; and the principles of inattention and ...
... epic and tragedy . At its center , therefore , will be mimetic flaws , inconsistencies and implausibilities of character and plot ; the authorial strategies that attempt to mitigate these flaws ; and the principles of inattention and ...
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... epic constantly motivates . If we look at the way the Iliad begins its narrative after the proem ( 1.6ff . ) by moving backwards in time through the technique of " lyric narrative " , the entire passage is structured by causal ...
... epic constantly motivates . If we look at the way the Iliad begins its narrative after the proem ( 1.6ff . ) by moving backwards in time through the technique of " lyric narrative " , the entire passage is structured by causal ...
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... epic and tragedy expect the audience to follow a rule of inattention for modest inconsistencies in the background . In both cases , the rule of inattention serves to permit local motivations . The con- ventions of tragedy rest on those ...
... epic and tragedy expect the audience to follow a rule of inattention for modest inconsistencies in the background . In both cases , the rule of inattention serves to permit local motivations . The con- ventions of tragedy rest on those ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
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