Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... significance in the very absence of verisimilitude . The term should not imply that the difficulty always exists before an author renders it meaningful . In La Princesse de Clèves , the Princesse's confession to her husband that she ...
... significance in the very absence of verisimilitude . The term should not imply that the difficulty always exists before an author renders it meaningful . In La Princesse de Clèves , the Princesse's confession to her husband that she ...
Page 74
... significance . In other situations , a rule of inattention applies . Some examples are tricky , however . As the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the first book of the Iliad escalates , Agamemnon threatens to take Achilles ...
... significance . In other situations , a rule of inattention applies . Some examples are tricky , however . As the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the first book of the Iliad escalates , Agamemnon threatens to take Achilles ...
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... significance and economy , as in the alternative curses Polyphemus speaks against Odysseus ( Od . 9.528-35 ) .194 At the same time , it is completely against the laws of Greek narrative that the promise made by Poseidon to his son ...
... significance and economy , as in the alternative curses Polyphemus speaks against Odysseus ( Od . 9.528-35 ) .194 At the same time , it is completely against the laws of Greek narrative that the promise made by Poseidon to his son ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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