Herodotean Narrative and Discourse. Martin Classical Lectures: 28.

Language: English

Published by Harvard University Press, 1984

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179 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Sehr guter Allgemeinzustand. Einband leicht berieben, Schmutztitel an zwei Stellen mit Kugelschreiber bekritzelt / Very good general condition. Binding slightly rubbed, half title scribbled in two places with pen. - Contents 1. Narrative Transitions 2. Patterns of Discourse 3. How Could Herodotus Imitate Homer? 4. Look to the End Epilogue Appendixes I. On Motivation II. Analytic List of Herodotean Speeches III. Summary Survey of Speeches' Formal Aspects IV. Direct and Indirect Discourse Notes Selected Bibliography Index of Herodotean Speeches Index of Other Herodotean Passages Index of Homeric Speeches and Passages / Almost any reader of Herodotus' Histories can be happily drawn along by the narrative flow without worrying much about where he is going. But every once in a while even the most casual reader will stop and ask, "How did we get from there to here?" The problem of the ways in which Herodotus' narrative moves has been much studied for the light it might shed on the order of composition and on Herodotus' own processes of thought.1 But no effort has been made, I think, to look for illumination in modern examples of oral narrative that are close to the kind of material which constituted Herodotus' sources and by which his own narrative style must have been affected. To enter the world of oral tradition and set the mood of oral narrative, it will be useful to introduce as a parable a worldwide folk motif that is frequent in North American Indian tales and also found in Siberia, Melanesia, and Bolivia: ascent to the sky by a chain of arrows. A typical example is from a tale of the Quillayute, who lived near Puget Sound; I quote the beginning: [.]. ISBN 9780674389854 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450.…

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Herodotean Narrative and Discourse. Martin Classical Lectures: 28.
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Lang, Mabel L.:
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Harvard University Press
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1984
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