Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... mimetic level corresponds roughly to the " story " of Formalist analysis , the imagined events , while the synthetic level belongs to " discourse ” . Artificiality at the synthetic level does not by itself limit credibility ...
... mimetic level corresponds roughly to the " story " of Formalist analysis , the imagined events , while the synthetic level belongs to " discourse ” . Artificiality at the synthetic level does not by itself limit credibility ...
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... mimetic level , Achilles ' nod to the Greek army may be implausible in itself , but it would be more implausi- ble if the entire army stood idly watching for no reason , and Achilles ' wish to kill Hector alone is fully in character ...
... mimetic level , Achilles ' nod to the Greek army may be implausible in itself , but it would be more implausi- ble if the entire army stood idly watching for no reason , and Achilles ' wish to kill Hector alone is fully in character ...
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... mimetic world , however , these narratives offer inconsistencies or violations of verisimilitude that make the mimetic world impossible . They break the frame . When Catullus emphasizes that the Argo was the first ship ( 64.11-15 ) ...
... mimetic world , however , these narratives offer inconsistencies or violations of verisimilitude that make the mimetic world impossible . They break the frame . When Catullus emphasizes that the Argo was the first ship ( 64.11-15 ) ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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