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Author:

Bakker, Egbert J.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Distributed by Harvard University Press,
Distributed by Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xiii, 205 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Homer--Technique.
Homer.--Language.
Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
Performing arts--Greece.
Epic poetry--Authorship.
Oral tradition--Greece.
Oral-formulaic analysis.
Rhetoric, Ancient.

Other Authors:

Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-190) and indexes.

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.

Series:

Hellenic studies ; 12

ISBN:

9780674019553
0674019555

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61130773

LCCN:

2005020621

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)