Written Voices, Spoken Signs: Tradition, Performance, and the Epic TextEgbert J. Bakker, Ahuvia Kahane Harvard University Press, 1997 - 305 pages Written Voices, Spoken Signs is a stimulating introduction to new perspectives on Homer and other traditional epics. Taking advantage of recent research on language and social exchange, the nine essays in this volume focus on performance and audience reception of oral poetry. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Storytelling in the Future Truth Time and Tense in Homeric Epic | 11 |
Writing the Emperors Clothes On Literacy and the Production of Facts | 37 |
Traditional Signs and Homeric Art | 56 |
The Inland Ship Problems in the Performance and Reception of Homeric Epic | 83 |
Hexameter Progression and the Homeric Heros Solitary State | 110 |
Similes and Performance | 138 |
Ellipsis in Homer | 167 |