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1. Strategies of persuasion in Herodotus' Histories and Genesis-Kings

   evoking reality in ancient narratives of a past
   Author: Tyrell, Eva

   Published: 2020

   Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

   "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... more

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   "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 patterns of narrative persuasion as a trans-cultural phenomenon and their connection with ancient concepts of reality and truth. The study contrasts differences in fundamental narrative structures of both narratives, such as mediacy and discursive versus diegetic text portions. It explores the role of material remains mentioned in the accounts to evoke or even create the reality of a past"--

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   Source:	Union catalogues
   Language:	English
   Media type:	Book
   Format:	Print
   ISBN:	9789004427969; 9004427961
   RVK Categories:	BC 4150 ; BC 4160 ; FH 23720
   Series:	Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; 195
   Subjects:	Herodotus; Bibel; Bibel; Persuasiver Sprechakt;
   Other subjects:	Rhetoric, Ancient; Persuasion (Rhetoric) / History / To 1500; Herodotus / History; Bible / Gensis / Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible / Kings / Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible / Kings; History (Herodotus); Persuasion (Rhetoric); Rhetoric, Ancient; To 1500; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
   Scope:	VII, 302 Seiten