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Project
The fictional life. A narratological-rhetorical approach to characterization and fictionality in the Greek biographers in the imperial period
This research project aims at a formal description of fictionality in ancient sophists' and philosophers' biographies (that is, non-fiction with clearly fictional characteristics) from the imperial period (1st-4th cent. AD). Therefore it develops a narratological-rhetorical analysis of character construction. This project enhances our understanding of the formal specificity of fictional and non-fictional narrative literature.
Date:1 Oct 2008 → 30 Sep 2014
Keywords:narratology, fiction, characterization, rhetoric, biography
Disciplines:Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Literary studies, Language studies, History, Other languages and literary studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics