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Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings : Evoking Reality in Ancient Narratives of a Past /

In Strategies of Persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings, Eva Tyrell comparatively analyzes narrative means in two monumental ancient texts about the past. Combining a narratological approach with insights of modern historical theory and biblical scholarship, she investigates patte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tyrell, Eva (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Colección:Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; 195.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • PART 1: Premises and Concepts
  • 1 Persuasion and Comparison
  • 1 A Comparative Approach
  • 2 The Writers' Awareness for Their Craft
  • 3 Characteristics of the Sources
  • 2 Method, Objectives, Theory
  • 1 Do Historical Narratives Employ Specific Narrative Strategies?
  • 2 Comparing Texts while Granting Them Different Criteria of Validity and Plausibility
  • 3 Strategies of Persuasion as Accessibility Relations
  • 4 Excursus: Ancient Greek Philosophy and Rhetorical Theory
  • 5 Limitation to Narratorial Discourse
  • 6 Additional Premises
  • 7 The Constitutive Role of the Recipient
  • 8 Usefulness of the Distinction between Narrator and Author
  • PART 2: Fundamentals of Narrative Structure in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings
  • 3 Highly Different Modes of Narration and Mediacy
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Mediacy in Gen-Kings and Herodotus
  • 3 Two Contrasting Modes of Mediation
  • 4 Connecting and Disconnecting Story-World and Discourse-World
  • 1 Indication of Temporal Distance between the Discourse-Now and the Past
  • 2 The Proportion of Discursive Parts
  • 3 The Use of Direct and Indirect Speech
  • 4 Characters Indirectly Addressing the Extradiegetic Audience
  • 5 Narrative Mode and Source Criticism
  • PART 3: Varied Functions of Objects as Means of Persuasion
  • Introduction
  • 5 Material Remains as Authentication
  • 1 Definition of Empirical Evidence
  • 2 Overview on the Expressions of Continuity in Herodotus and Gen-Kings
  • 3 Shared Characteristics of Empirical Evidence
  • 4 Objects Used as Support for Established Knowledge about the Past
  • 5 Objects Used as a Source of Information
  • 6 The Importance of Material Remains in the Histories Is Relative
  • 7 Identifying Function
  • 8 Conclusion
  • 6 Kinds of Presence-Do Objects Have to Be Accessible to Function as Authentication?
  • 1 Border Cases: the Absence and Presence of Continuation into the Present
  • 2 The Rhetoric of Lost or Hidden Monuments
  • 3 Formal Criteria for Authentication Not Parsed as Evidence If Other Factors Predominate
  • 4 Does Vivid Narration Suffice to Persuade of a Past Reality?
  • 5 Relics as Witness in a Legal Context
  • 6 Texts as Documents and Physical Relics
  • 7 Conclusion
  • 7 Combinations of Normative Persuasion and Authentication
  • 1 Evidence for Supernatural Events as a Claim to Overall Significance
  • 2 More Relics Invested with Both Empirical and Normative Plausibility
  • 3 Conclusion
  • 8 Objects as Visuals and Capturing a Condensed Meaning
  • 1 Objects as Visuals for Motivations and Concepts
  • 2 Objects as Expression of Condensed Meaning
  • 3 Conclusion
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • 1 Selected Material Remains in the Biblical Account of a Past
  • 2 Selected Material Remains in Herodotus' Histories.