Author: AristophanesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Plutus of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Language of Greek Comedy
Author: Andreas WilliPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199245479
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterizationin Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay.While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
Plutus
Author: AristophanesPLUTUS OF ARISTOPHANES
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781373497833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Plutus of Aristophanes
Author: AristophanesPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9780530764344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
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Stories from the Greek Comedians
Author: Alfred John ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greek drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise
Author: Dimitrios KanellakisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110677032
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as an elaborate system which characterises the style of the specific dramatist. More precisely, the book analyses Aristophanes’ most prominent verbal, thematic, and theatrical modes of surprise from a typological perspective, and interprets them as comprising the key area in which the playwright claims and demonstrates his artistic superiority over rival genres and individual poets. In line with this purpose, two parallel aims of the book are to provide an original commentary on the passages under examination, and to promote the study of modern performances – a practice which has so far been either restricted to Classical Reception or only theoretically acknowledged (if at all) by mainstream philological scholarship. This is a timely book on a topic of wide current interest across a range of interlocking disciplines: emotion studies, semiotics, narratology, information theory, and -most pertinently for this book- humour research.
The Plutus
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780649454976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Plutus; Or, The God of Riches
Author: AristophanesPlutus (Large Print)
Author: AristophanesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781480136540
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Cario What an unhappy fate, great gods, to be the slave of a fool! A servant may give the best of advice, but if his master does not follow it, the poor slave must inevitably have his share in the disaster; for fortune does not allow him to dispose of his own body, it belongs to his master who has bought it. Alas! 'tis the way of the world. But the god, Apollo [in tragic style], whose oracles the Pythian priestess on her golden tripod makes known to us, deserves my censure, for surely he is a physician and a cunning diviner; and yet my master is leaving his temple infected with mere madness and insists on following a blind man. Is this not opposed to all good sense? It is for us, who see clearly, to guide those who don't; whereas he clings to the trail of a blind fellow and compels me to do the same without answering my questions with ever a word. [To Chremylus] Aye, master, unless you tell me why we are following this unknown fellow, I will not be silent, but I will worry and torment you, for you cannot beat me because of my sacred chaplet of laurel.