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Tables of Contents for Homer's Traditional Art
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Pronunciation Key
ix
 
Preface
xi
 
Introduction
1
12
PART I: HOMER'S SIGN-LANGUAGE
Homeric Signs and Traditional Referentiality
13
24
PART II: HOMERIC AND SOUTH SLAVIC EPIC
Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: The Analogy and the Singers
37
28
Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: Traditional Register
65
24
Homer and the South Slavic Guslar: Traditional Referentiality
89
26
PART III: READING HOMER'S SIGNS
Story-Pattern as Sema: The Odyssey as a Return Song
115
54
Typical Scenes of Feast and Lament
169
32
Word, Idiom, Speech-Act: The Traditional Phrase as Sema
201
40
PART IV: HOMERIC SIGNS AND ODYSSEY 23
Rereading Odyssey 23
241
30
Afterword: ``Deor'' and Anglo-Saxon Semata
263
8
Appendix I. Feasting in Homer
271
4
Appendix II. ``Deor''
275
2
Notes
277
44
Master Bibliography
321
20
Index
341
16
Index Locorum
357