Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... morally acceptable . Even very sophisticated readers and writers do not stop caring about credibility . " " .11 Readers of ... moral evaluation becomes important in reading . 13 Rabinowitz 1987 . treats the story as true ; the reader who ...
... morally acceptable . Even very sophisticated readers and writers do not stop caring about credibility . " " .11 Readers of ... moral evaluation becomes important in reading . 13 Rabinowitz 1987 . treats the story as true ; the reader who ...
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... moral tone , but also to add motivation.20 In Greek literature , too , where authors in- herited their stories , retelling and varying them , it is clear how the same story may be more or less credible in different tellings . Homer ...
... moral tone , but also to add motivation.20 In Greek literature , too , where authors in- herited their stories , retelling and varying them , it is clear how the same story may be more or less credible in different tellings . Homer ...
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... moral independence from Odysseus . It is as if his greater understanding of himself leads to fuller objective knowledge . ' 230 Critics have often commented that when Neoptolemus first tells his men that Philoctetes must come to Troy in ...
... moral independence from Odysseus . It is as if his greater understanding of himself leads to fuller objective knowledge . ' 230 Critics have often commented that when Neoptolemus first tells his men that Philoctetes must come to Troy in ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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