Strategies of persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings: evoking reality in ancient narratives of a past

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Premises and Concepts -- Chapter 1 Persuasion and Comparison -- 1 A Comparative Approach -- 2 The Writers' Awareness for Their Craft -- 3 Characteristics of the Sources -- 3.1 Tradition Literature versus Known Author -- 3.2 Points of Similarity in...

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Main Author: Tyrell, Eva (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Boston BRILL 2020
In: Journal for the study of Judaism (volume 195)
Year: 2020
Reviews:[Rezension von: Tyrell, Eva, Strategies of persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings : evoking reality in ancient narratives of a past] (2021) (Pietsch, Michael, 1967 -)
[Rezension von: Tyrell, Eva, Strategies of persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings : evoking reality in ancient narratives of a past] (2022) (Lester, Mark)
[Rezension von: Tyrell, Eva, Strategies of persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings : evoking reality in ancient narratives of a past] (2022) (Kline, Joanna)
Series/Journal:Journal for the study of Judaism Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism volume 195
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Herodotus ca. 485 v. Chr.-424 v. Chr. / Bible. Könige 1.-2. / Persuasive speech act
Further subjects:B Herodotus.-History
B Electronic books
B Thesis
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1 Premises and Concepts -- Chapter 1 Persuasion and Comparison -- 1 A Comparative Approach -- 2 The Writers' Awareness for Their Craft -- 3 Characteristics of the Sources -- 3.1 Tradition Literature versus Known Author -- 3.2 Points of Similarity in the Selected Sources -- Chapter 2 Method, Objectives, Theory -- 1 Do Historical Narratives Employ Specific Narrative Strategies? -- 2 Comparing Texts while Granting Them Different Criteria of Validity and Plausibility -- 2.1 Rüsen's Theory: Universal Areas of Plausibility in Historical Thought -- 2.2 My Approach -- 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 Structurein Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings -- Chapter 3 Highly Different Modes of Narration and Mediacy -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Mediacy in Gen-Kings and Herodotus -- 2.1 The Narrator Speaking in the First Person -- 2.2 A Term Designating the Work -- 2.3 Narratorial References to 'Himself' as the Narrator -- 2.4 Insights into the Narrator's Thought Processes and Method -- 3 Two Contrasting Modes of Mediation -- Chapter 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 -- 2.1 Objects as Connectors of Story-World and Discourse-World -- 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.
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ISBN:900442797X