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...
| 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. Chapter 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 -- Chapter 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 -- 2.1 Uses of the Imperfect with Objects and Their Prospective Decay and Disappearance -- 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 -- Chapter 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 -- 2.1 Commemoration of the Dead and of Great Achievements -- 2.2 Triumph Over the Enemy -- 2.3 Authentication of an Exemplum -- 3 Conclusion -- Chapter 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 -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Subject Index. |
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| ISBN: | 900442797X |