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

Author(s)

• Bakker, Egbert J.

Bibliographic Information

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

Egbert J. Bakker

（Hellenic studies, 12）

Center for Hellenic Studies , Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2005

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

Epic is not only a nostalgic memory of a remote past, but also, as performance, a deliberate act in the present. In fact, as this book argues, memory is itself a deliberate act when it is turned into epic language. With numerous fresh linguistic observations the author shows that the epic narrator makes the epic past come to the present: epic is not only a verbal artifact that points to the past; it also is a performer's act of pointing at a past that has become present in and through language. Building on his earlier work, Egbert Bakker demonstrates the power of discourse analysis as an essential tool for elucidating the poetics of the Homeric tradition.

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Details

• NCID: BA77808821
• ISBN:
  • 0674019555
• LCCN: 2005020621
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Washington, D.C.,Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 205 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA4177.E6
  • DC22 : 883/.01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Homer -- Technique
  • LCSH : Epic poetry, Greek -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Performing arts -- Greece
  • LCSH : Epic poetry -- Authorship
  • LCSH : Oral tradition -- Greece
  • LCSH : Oral-formulaic analysis
  • LCSH : Homer -- Language
  • LCSH : Rhetoric, Ancient
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA61339390