Preface

Peripheral and Nuclear Semantics

Formula, Context, and Synoymy

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

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Passages Discussed

Egbert J. Bakker is Professor of Classics at Yale University.

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