Telling Wonders

Telling Wonders  (English, Hardcover, Munson Rosaria Vignolo)

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  • Language: English
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
  • Genre: Literary Criticism
  • ISBN: 9780472112036, 9780472112036
  • Pages: 336
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As he explores the causes of the East-West conflict from its most remote antecedents, Herodotus includes conflicting traditions about different historical periods as well as apparently tangential descriptions of the customs of faraway peoples. What was his aim in combining such diverse material? Rosaria Vignolo Munson argues that Herodotus' aim was two-fold: to use historical narrative to illuminate the present and to describe barbarian customs so that the Greeks might understand themselves. Herodotus assumes the role of advisor to his audience, acting as a master of metaphor and oracular speech and as an intellectual fully aware of new philosophical and political trends. By comparing, interpreting, and evaluating facts through time and space or simply by pointing them out as objects of "wonder," he teaches that correct political action is linked to an appropriate approach to foreigners and additional "others." Munson relies on traditional scholarship and modern studies in narratology and related critical fields to distinguish between narrative and metanarrative, providing a framework for analyzing the construction of Herodotus' discourse and his presentation of himself through it. Munson's work will be useful to classicists and ancient historians and will also engage anthropologists interested in cultural interaction and notions of ethnicity and literary critics interested in narrative constructions.
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  • The University of Michigan Press
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Width
  • 30 mm
Height
  • 229 mm
Length
  • 152 mm
Weight
  • 680 gr
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