Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Surprise

Author : Dimitrios Kanellakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110677034

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Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise by Dimitrios Kanellakis Pdf

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.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198900245

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Wasps and Other Plays by Aristophanes Pdf

'No matter which way you look at us, you'll find that we're in all respects; Remarkably wasp-like in our habits, in every aspect of our lives.' Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BCE. One of the most original playwrights in the entire Western tradition, his comedies are remarkable for their brilliant combination of fantasy and satire, their constantly inventive manipulation of language, and their use of absurd characters and plots to expose his society's institutions and values to the bracing challenge of laughter. This is the third and final volume of a new verse translation of the complete plays of Aristophanes. It contains four of his most overtly political plays: Acharnians, in which an Athenian farmer rebels against the city's war policies; Knights, a biting satire of populist demagogues; Wasps, whose main theme is the Athenian system of lawcourts; and Peace, in which escape from war is symbolized in images of rustic fertility and sensuality. The translation combines historical accuracy with a sensitive attempt to capture the rich dramatic and literary qualities of Aristophanic comedy. Each play is presented with a thought-provoking introduction and extensive editorial notes to accompany the vivid translations, balancing performability with faithfulness to the original.

Author : Zachary P. Biles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139494724

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Aristophanes and the Poetics of Competition by Zachary P. Biles Pdf

Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature.

Author : Dimitrios Kanellakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110747942

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Pathologies of Love in Classical Literature by Dimitrios Kanellakis Pdf

Do you believe in love at first sight? The Greeks and the Romans certainly did. But far from enjoying this romantic moment carefree, they saw it as a cruel experience and an infection. Then what are the symptoms of falling in love? Are there any remedies? Any form of immunity? This book explores the conception of love (erôs) as a physical, emotional, and mental disease, a social-ethical disorder, and a literary unorthodoxy in Greek and Latin literature. Through illustrative case studies, the contributors to this volume examine two distinct, yet historically and poetically interrelated traditions of ‘pathological love’: lovesickness as/similar to disease and deviant sexuality described in nosologic terms. The chapters represent a wide range of genres (lyric poetry, philosophy, oratory, comedy, tragedy, elegy, satire, novel, and of course medical literature) and a fascinating synthesis of methodologies and approaches, including textual criticism, comparative philology, narratology, performance theory, and social history. The book closes with an anthology of Greek and Latin passages on pathological erôs. While primarily aimed at an academic readership, the book is accessible to anyone interested in Classics and/or the theme of love.

Author : Jeremy J. Mhire,Bryan-Paul Frost
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438450056

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The Political Theory of Aristophanes by Jeremy J. Mhire,Bryan-Paul Frost Pdf

This original and wide-ranging collection of essays offers, for the first time, a comprehensive examination of the political dimensions of that madcap comic poet Aristophanes. Rejecting the claim that Aristophanes is little more than a mere comedian, the contributors to this fascinating volume demonstrate that Aristophanes deserves to be placed in the ranks of the greatest Greek political thinkers. As these essays reveal, all of Aristophanes' plays treat issues of fundamental political importance, from war and peace, poverty and wealth, the relation between the sexes, demagoguery and democracy to the role of philosophy and poetry in political society. Accessible to students as well as scholars, The Political Theory of Aristophanes can be utilized easily in the classroom, but at the same time serve as a valuable source for those conducting more advanced research. Whether the field is political philosophy, classical studies, history, or literary criticism, this work will make it necessary to reconceptualize how we understand this great Athenian poet and force us to recognize the political ramifications and underpinnings of his uproarious comedies.

Author : Georgios K. Giannakis,Luz Conti,Jesús de la Villa,Raquel Fornieles
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110719338

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Synchrony and Diachrony of Ancient Greek by Georgios K. Giannakis,Luz Conti,Jesús de la Villa,Raquel Fornieles Pdf

This collective volume contains thirty six original studies on various aspects of Ancient Greek language, linguistics and philology written by an international group of leading authorities in the field. The essays are organized in five thematic groups covering a wide variety of issues of ancient Greek linguistics, ranging from epigraphy and the study of individual dialects to various other aspects of the structure of the language, such as phonetics and phonology, morphology, lexicon and word formation, etymology, metrics as well as many syntactic matters and problems of pragmatics and stylistics of the language; a number of essays move in the middle ground where language, linguistics and philology crosscut and cross-fertilize each other with the application of linguistic theory to the study of classical texts. The work is of special relevance to scholars interested in Greek linguistics in general and in particular aspects of the Greek language.

Author : Almut Fries,Dimitrios Kanellakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110646269

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Ancient Greek Comedy by Almut Fries,Dimitrios Kanellakis Pdf

This volume, in honour of Angus M. Bowie, collects seventeen original essays on Greek comedy. Its contributors treat questions of origin, genre and artistic expression, interpret individual plays from different angles (literary, historical, performative) and cover aspects of reception from antiquity to the 20th century. Topics that have not received much attention so far, such as the prehistory of Doric comedy or music in Old Comedy, receive a prominent place. The essays are arranged in three sections: (1) Genre, (2) Texts and Contexts, (3) Reception. Within each section the chapters are as far as possible arranged in chronological order, according to historical time or to the (putative) dates of the plays under discussion. Thus readers will be able to construe their own diachronic and thematic connections, for example between the portrayal of stock characters in early Doric farce and developed Attic New Comedy or between different forms of comic reception in the fourth century BC. The book is intended for professional scholars, graduate and undergraduate students. Its wide range of subjects and approaches will appeal not only to those working on Greek comedy, but to anyone interested in Greek drama and its afterlife.

Author : Peter Swallow,Edith Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350101531

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Aristophanic Humour by Peter Swallow,Edith Hall Pdf

This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient comedy – what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes' humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy was above all else designed to amuse people, to win the dramatic competition by making the audience laugh the hardest. Any discussion of Aristophanes therefore needs to take into account the ways in which his humour actually works. This question is addressed in two ways. The first half of the volume offers an in-depth discussion of humour theory – a field heretofore largely overlooked by classicists and Aristophanists – examining various theoretical models within the specific context of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays. In the second half, contributors explore Aristophanic humour more practically, examining how specific linguistic techniques and performative choices affect the reception of humour, and exploring the range of subjects Aristophanes tackles as vectors for his comedy. A focus on performance shapes the narrative, since humour lives or dies on the stage – it is never wholly comprehensible on the page alone.

Author : Inger NI Kuin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472133345

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Lucian’s Laughing Gods by Inger NI Kuin Pdf

The first English-language monograph about religion and Lucian of Samosata

Author : Ioanna Karamanou
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783911065016

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FrC 25.2 Diphilos frr. 59-85 by Ioanna Karamanou Pdf

This volume forms the second part of the three-volume commentary on the fragments of Diphilus, who belongs to the prominent triad of the poets of New Comedy alongside Menander and Philemon. The present volume comprises the text and an English translation of the fragments of twenty-two plays of Diphilus, followed by a full-scale (philological, thematic, literary, interpretative, historical) commentary that also yields insight into the reception of Diphilan comedy in Roman theatre. This in-depth study of the Diphilan techniques of verbal humour and performance aims at shedding light on the dramatist's distinctive place in the comic tradition, as well as showcasing a degree of variation in the overall image of the production of new comedy.

Author : Nikolaus Dietrich,Johannes Fouquet
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110775761

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Image, Text, Stone by Nikolaus Dietrich,Johannes Fouquet Pdf

This edited volume explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. Through its choice of authors, disciplinary backgrounds are deliberately merged in order to bridge the traditional gap between archaeologists, epigraphists and philologists, who for a long time studied statues, material inscriptions and literary epigrams within the closely confined borders of their individual disciplines. Through its choice of objects, privileging works of which there are significant material remains, through its inclusion of all kinds of figural-cum-inscriptional designs, ranging from grand sculpture to reliefs and ‘decorative’ marble-objects, and through its methodological emphasis on ‘close viewing’ (and reading!) of individual objects, this volume focuses on the materiality of both sculpture and inscription. This perspective is enriched by two comparative chapters on inscribing Greek vases and Roman walls (graffiti). The intermediality of image and inscription is envisaged from various thematic angles, including the intricacies of combining image and epigram (both materially and in literary projection), the original production and reception of inscribed sculpture in its ‘long life’, the viewing and ‘reading’ of sculpture in a space of movement, the issue of (re-)naming statues, and the image and inscription in its social and gender-historical context.

Author : Øivind Andersen,Jon Haarberg
Publisher : Bristol Classical Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025746863

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Making Sense of Aristotle by Øivind Andersen,Jon Haarberg Pdf

What is the importance of poetry? Why do we enjoy the experience of tragic distress? Does Roman tragedy reflect Aristotelian poetics? In what ways can "Poetics" be read and interpreted? These questions are discussed in this collection of essays on Aristotle's "Poetics".

Author : Alessandro Grilli,Francesco Morosi
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies & ETS
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788846765826

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Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson by Alessandro Grilli,Francesco Morosi Pdf

This study aims to provide a comparative analysis of the dynamics of musical and poetical meta-performance as they emerge both from the surviving corpus of ancient Attic comedy (which adds up, for our purposes, to Aristophanes’ eleven extant plays) and from Ben Jonson’s comedies. As a matter of fact, both corpora show a huge presence of meta-performative elements, that is, of moments in which musical and/or poetical performance is explicitly thematized or enacted in the drama. Those moments are hardly ever fortuitous, or not significant. On the contrary, they play each time a vital role in the development of the plot, in the portrait of characters, or in the definition of the ideology of the play. By means of a comparative analysis between the two authors, the book aims at providing a taxonomy of meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson, with particular attention to its role in the definition of the characters' poetic ability. Such comparison will show that, despite using similar comic and performative strategies, the two authors draw a completely different ideology around the crucial themes of culture and titularity.

Author : Lane Cooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UCSC:32106001661740

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The Poetics of Aristotle by Lane Cooper Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1987-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781603849548

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Poetics by Aristotle Pdf

Richard Janko's acclaimed translation of Aristotle's Poetics is accompanied by the most comprehensive commentary available in English that does not presume knowledge of the original Greek. Two other unique features are Janko's translations with notes of both the Tractatus Coislinianus, which is argued to be a summary of the lost second book of the Poetics, and fragments of Aristotle’s dialogue On Poets, including recently discovered texts about catharsis, which appear in English for the first time.