Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... knowledge . ' 230 Critics have often commented that when Neoptolemus first tells his men that Philoctetes must come ... knowledge without quite insisting on it . Neoptolemus ' knowledge , in other words , is not entirely plausible , but ...
... knowledge . ' 230 Critics have often commented that when Neoptolemus first tells his men that Philoctetes must come ... knowledge without quite insisting on it . Neoptolemus ' knowledge , in other words , is not entirely plausible , but ...
Page 140
... knowledge is generally thematized as fate or divine intervention and serves to generate wonder . Such thematization also can also allow read- ers who lack specific earlier knowledge to respond as if they had it . Para- doxically , then ...
... knowledge is generally thematized as fate or divine intervention and serves to generate wonder . Such thematization also can also allow read- ers who lack specific earlier knowledge to respond as if they had it . Para- doxically , then ...
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... knowledge to play the events of one drama within a wider context that might modify its meaning . So at the end of Electra he hints at future troubles of the house of Atreus , even though the drama as a whole has tended to treat Orestes ...
... knowledge to play the events of one drama within a wider context that might modify its meaning . So at the end of Electra he hints at future troubles of the house of Atreus , even though the drama as a whole has tended to treat Orestes ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
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