Greek Literature in the Classical Period
Subtitle: The Prose of Historiography and Oratory (Greek Literature, Volume 5)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 2001
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780815336860
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Ancient (Classical) Greek; Literary Criticism; Europe; Ancient and Classical; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Greek literature; European - General
First sentence: It is a topos nowadays that an author does not just construct his text but also encodes into it a narrative contract: he writes into the text the rules by which his audience is to read it, how we are to understand his performance as author and our own responsibilities and legitimate pleasures as readers.