Pointing at the past
Subtitle: from formula to performance in Homeric poetics
By: by Egbert J. Bakker.
Contributors: Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Series: Hellenic studies ;; 12
Publisher: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.  ) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Peripheral and nuclear semantics; title: Formula, context, and synonymy; title: How oral is oral composition?; title: Mimesis as performance; title: The poetics of deixis; title: Storytelling in the future; title: Similes, augment, and the language of immediacy; title: Remembering the god's arrival; title: Mohammed and the mountain.