Pointing at the past : from formula to performance in Homeric poetics

Pointing at the past : from formula to performance in Homeric poetics / Egbert J. Bakker.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bakker, Egbert J.
Corporate Author: Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, Mass. : Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005.
Series:Hellenic studies ; 12
Subjects:
Homer > Technique.
Homer > Language.
Epic poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Performing arts > Greece.
Epic poetry > Authorship.
Oral tradition > Greece.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Peripheral and nuclear semantics
  • Formula, context, and synonymy
  • How oral is oral composition?
  • Mimesis as performance
  • The poetics of deixis
  • Storytelling in the future
  • Similes, augment, and the language of immediacy
  • Remembering the god's arrival
  • Mohammed and the mountain.

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