Format:
Online-Ressource (422 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107033313
Content:
Explores comedy's voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions surrounding and shaping it
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Note to the reader; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Comedy and genre: self-definition and development; Chapter 1 The Greek dramatic genres: theoretical perspectives; Preliminaries; Generic text and context; Generic development; Value; Genre theory and the Clouds; Chapter 2 Comedy and the Pompe; Phallic choruses in fifth-century Attic vase-painting; Phallic choruses and the Dionysia; Ithyphalloi, phallophoroi and others; The character of the Pompe or why do phalloi have sticks?; What comedy owes to the phallika
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What the phallika owe to comedy: phallic choruses in fourth-century vase-paintingConclusion; Chapter 3 Iambos, comedy and the question of generic affiliation; Part II Comedy and genres in dialogue; Chapter 4 Paraepic comedy: point(s) and practices; A paraepic kitchen; A Sicilian take on Homeric epic; The Athenian context; Turning to Aristophanes; Slicing the big meals of Homer; Chapter 5 Epic, nostos and generic genealogy in Aristophanes' Peace; Poetic contrasts and gene(ric)alogical trees; Comedy and its ancestors: Hesiod and Archilochus; Re-enacting the epipolesis in Peace
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Trygaeus, Hesiod and the Iliadic sonsComedy and the Odyssean Hesiod; Chapter 6 Comedy and the civic chorus; Chapter 7 Aristophanes' Simonides; Chapter 8 Comedy versus tragedy in Wasps; Chapter 9 Crime and punishment; Cratinus' Plutoi and its intertexts: chthonic deities, wealth and delayed punishment; Unjust wealth, the `wealth of the Earth' and the Erinyes in the Oresteia; Cratinus' chorus of Plutoi and the Erinyes of the Oresteia; Cratinus and Aeschylus i: the earth and elite wealth in the Oresteia and in Plutoi
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Cratinus and Aeschylus ii: Cratinean poetics, and Plutoi between comedy and Aeschylean tragedyChapter 10 From Achilles' horses to a cheese-sellers shop; Chapter 11 The Aesopic in Aristophanes; Chapter 12 The mirror of Aristophanes; Poetry, wings, Hyperboreans and laughter; Fabulous ethnography; Winged ethnography; The Birds'; The mirror of Aristophanes: centre and periphery in Birds; Part III The reception of comedy and comic discourse; Chapter 13 Comedy and comic discourse in Plato's Laws; Magnesia, the law and its communicative strategies
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The psychology of comic laughter in the Republic and Philebus: some observationsComedy at Magnesia (i): the spectacle of otherness; Comedy at Magnesia (part ii): comic mania and bad speech; Chapter 14 Comedy and the Pleiad; References; Index locorum; General index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107345881
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107033313
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
Language:
English
Keywords:
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