UID:
almahu_9949546553702882
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.)
ISBN:
9780226815756
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9783110993899
Content:
Considers how ancient Greek comedy offers a model for present-day politics. With Democratic Swarms, Page duBois revisits the role of Greek comedy in ancient politics, considering how it has been overlooked as a political medium by modern theorists and critics. Moving beyond the popular readings of ancient Greece through the lens of tragedy, she calls for a revitalized look at Greek comedy. Rather than revisiting the sufferings of Oedipus and his family or tragedy's relationship to questions of sovereignty, this book calls for comedy-its laughter, its free speech, its wild swarming animal choruses, and its rebellious women-to inform another model of democracy. Ancient comedy has been underplayed in the study of Greek drama. Yet, with the irrepressible energy of the comic swarm, it provides a unique perspective on everyday life, gender and sexuality, and the utopian politics of the classical period of Athenian democracy. Using the concepts of swarm intelligence and nomadic theory, duBois augments tragic thought with the resistant, utopian, libidinous, and often joyous communal legacy of comedy, and she connects the lively anti-authoritarianism of the ancient comic chorus with the social justice movements of today.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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Introduction --
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Chapter 1. The Tragic Individual: The Tyranny of Oedipus and Antigone --
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Chapter 2. The Swarm --
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Chapter 3. Chorus --
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Chapter 4. Utopias --
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Chapter 5. Parrhesia: Saying It All --
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Chapter 6. Democracy, Communalism, Communism --
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Chapter 7. Epilogue: The Politics of the Present --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
In:
University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766509
Language:
English
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226815756
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