Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... inattention governs the slight inaccuracies of speakers who reconfigure events they know . Lies and mistakes escape inattention when the audience has reason to expect the speaker to be un- reliable , or when the false statements refer ...
... inattention governs the slight inaccuracies of speakers who reconfigure events they know . Lies and mistakes escape inattention when the audience has reason to expect the speaker to be un- reliable , or when the false statements refer ...
Page 112
... inattention . Messenger speeches are the closest tragedy comes to authoritative narrative . Still , epic rules of inattention are not irrelevant . Characters may allude to events outside the stage action in ways that contradict others ...
... inattention . Messenger speeches are the closest tragedy comes to authoritative narrative . Still , epic rules of inattention are not irrelevant . Characters may allude to events outside the stage action in ways that contradict others ...
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... 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 of epic , and these in turn have their ori- gins in the ...
... 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 of epic , and these in turn have their ori- gins in the ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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