Credible Impossibilities: Conventions and Strategies of Verisimilitude in Homer and Greek TragedyVieweg+Teubner Verlag, 1999 - 216 pages |
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... traditional material that the performance at hand was not developing , or modify traditional material for the purpose , or invent material on the basis of traditional patterns . For narrative purposes , the source of the motivation is ...
... traditional material that the performance at hand was not developing , or modify traditional material for the purpose , or invent material on the basis of traditional patterns . For narrative purposes , the source of the motivation is ...
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... traditional truth of the narrative creates a convention under which there is always room for new information , even when the narrative appears to leave none . In practice , this convention is a rule of inattention : such gaps exist in ...
... traditional truth of the narrative creates a convention under which there is always room for new information , even when the narrative appears to leave none . In practice , this convention is a rule of inattention : such gaps exist in ...
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... traditional problems of the portrayal of the gods , and some was linguistic or biographical ; but even such criticism contrib- uted methods and the habit of close reading . And the development of a repertory of reading techniques made ...
... traditional problems of the portrayal of the gods , and some was linguistic or biographical ; but even such criticism contrib- uted methods and the habit of close reading . And the development of a repertory of reading techniques made ...
Contents
Defining Credibility | 1 |
Homeric Chronology and Conventions of Inattention | 59 |
Inaccurate Prediction | 77 |
Copyright | |
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