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

Publication Data

• Title Pointing at the past : from formula to performance in Homeric poetics
• Author Egbert J. Bakker
• Contributor Center for Hellenic Studies
• Publisher Center for Hellenic Studies
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Washington, D.C.
• Language English

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.

Topics

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

Pointing at the past : from formula to performance in Homeric poetics by Egbert J. Bakker. ISBN 0674019555. Published by Center for Hellenic Studies in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.