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- catalog abstract ""In this study the author shows that the demands made on the poet, who relies neither on rote memory nor on written notes, have led him to adopt certain memory-based strategies which have left their traces in the text. What we discover is that the poet in an oral tradition makes intense and creative use of those resources of memory which are available to us all - episodic memory, auditory memory, visual memory, and spatial memory - to assist him both in the preparation of his song and at the moment of performance."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12064444.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""In this study the author shows that the demands made on the poet, who relies neither on rote memory nor on written notes, have led him to adopt certain memory-based strategies which have left their traces in the text. What we discover is that the poet in an oral tradition makes intense and creative use of those resources of memory which are available to us all - episodic memory, auditory memory, visual memory, and spatial memory - to assist him both in the preparation of his song and at the moment of performance."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-239) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Introduction: Working from Memory? -- 1. Homer's Typical Scenes: Homeric Theme and Cognitive Script -- 2. On Working under Pressure: The Performance of Lists and Catalogues -- 3. Homer's Descriptive Segments: Their Composition and their Role in the Narrative -- 4. Similes in Homer: Image, Mind's Eye, and Memory -- 5. Homer's Script for Storytelling: The Evidence of the Invocations -- 6. The Story Format and the Generation of 'Rings' -- Epilogue: 'Special' Storytelling: Homer's 'Blameless Tales'.".
- catalog extent "viii, 247 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0198152574".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog subject "883/.01 21".
- catalog subject "Cognitive psychology.".
- catalog subject "Epic poetry, Greek History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Homer Technique.".
- catalog subject "Memory.".
- catalog subject "Oral tradition Greece.".
- catalog subject "Oral-formulaic analysis.".
- catalog subject "PA4175 .M56 2001".
- catalog subject "Storytelling Psychological aspects.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Working from Memory? -- 1. Homer's Typical Scenes: Homeric Theme and Cognitive Script -- 2. On Working under Pressure: The Performance of Lists and Catalogues -- 3. Homer's Descriptive Segments: Their Composition and their Role in the Narrative -- 4. Similes in Homer: Image, Mind's Eye, and Memory -- 5. Homer's Script for Storytelling: The Evidence of the Invocations -- 6. The Story Format and the Generation of 'Rings' -- Epilogue: 'Special' Storytelling: Homer's 'Blameless Tales'.".
- catalog title "Homer and the resources of memory : some applications of cognitive theory to the Iliad and the Odyssey / Elizabeth Minchin.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".