UID:
almahu_9947414888802882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 404 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139519601 (ebook)
Content:
Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Greek comedy as a fabric of generic discourse /
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The Greek dramatic genres : theoretical perspectives /
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Comedy and the Pompe : Dionysian genre-crossing /
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Iambos, comedy and the question of generic affiliation /
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Paraepic comedy : point(s) and practices /
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Epic, nostos and generic genealogy in Aristophanes' Peace /
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Comedy and the civic chorus /
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Aristophanes' Simonides : lyric models for praise and blame /
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Comedy versus tragedy in Wasps /
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Crime and punishment : Cratinus, Aeschylus' Oresteia, and the metaphysics and politics of wealth /
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From Achilles' horses to a cheese-seller's shop : on the history of the guessing game in Greek drama /
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The Aesopic in Aristophanes /
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The mirror of Aristophanes : the winged ethnographers of Birds (1470-93, 1553-64, 1694-1705) /
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Comedy and comic discourse in Plato's Laws /
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Comedy and the Pleiad : Alexandrian tragedians and the birth of comic scholarship /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107033313
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519601
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