Fragmentation In Ancient Greek Drama

Author : Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110621693

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Fragmentation in Ancient Greek Drama by Anna A. Lamari,Franco Montanari,Anna Novokhatko Pdf

This volume examines whether dramatic fragments should be approached as parts of a greater whole or as self-contained entities. It comprises contributions by a broad spectrum of international scholars: by young researchers working on fragmentary drama as well as by well-known experts in this field. The volume explores another kind of fragmentation that seems already to have been embraced by the ancient dramatists: quotations extracted from their context and immersed in a new whole, in which they work both as cohesive unities and detachable entities. Sections of poetic works circulated in antiquity not only as parts of a whole, but also independently, i.e. as component fractions, rather like quotations on facebook today. Fragmentation can thus be seen operating on the level of dissociation, but also on the level of cohesion. The volume investigates interpretive possibilities, quotation contexts, production and reception stages of fragmentary texts, looking into the ways dramatic fragments can either increase the depth of fragmentation or strengthen the intensity of cohesion.

Author : Ioanna Karamanou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110660005

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Refiguring Tragedy by Ioanna Karamanou Pdf

This book brings together case studies delving into different, unstudied aspects of the Nachleben of selected lost tragedies either in their once extant form or in their fragmentary state in later periods of time. It seeks to explore the ways in which the plays in question were reworked, discussed, represented or reperformed within varying frameworks. Notably enough, research on the reception of tragic fragments could yield insight not only into the receiving work, but also into the facets of the source text that have attracted attention in its subsequent refigurations. It could thus shed light on the ideological and cultural routes through which these fragmentary tragedies were received by the poet, the scholar, the artist, the viewer, the reader and the spectator in each case. The complex process of the refiguration of a fragmentarily preserved play within different contexts could form a yardstick of its cultural power and elucidate the dynamics of fragmentation in modern times. Τhe volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception, cultural and performance studies, as well as to readers fascinated by Greek tragedy and its vibrant afterlife.

Author : Eleftheria Ioannidou
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199664115

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Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames by Eleftheria Ioannidou Pdf

Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames takes as its subject adaptation of Greek tragedy in the last decades, arguing that rewritings of Greek tragic texts in this period can be used as a tool to uncover a significant dialogue with postmodernism. Despite the large number of staged and written adaptations of Greek tragic texts in recent years, the idea still persists that tragedy is incompatible with postmodernism, with the long-standing debate over the demise of the genre in the modern era undergoing a recent resurgence with the claim that postmodernism precludes tragedy both as an aesthetic form and as a way of perceiving the world. This volume focuses on the adaptation of Greek tragedy between 1970 and 2005 and explores a wide range of adaptations from a variety of different countries: the plays under discussion are characterized by an extended intertextual engagement with their prototype texts - instead of simply adapting the Greek myth, they rewrite the classical text in ways akin to the renegotiation of authorship and textuality proffered by poststructuralist thought. Such adaptive strategies are not only integral to the wider problematics of interrogating the authority of the classical canon and the power structures embedded in its reception, but also have also given rise to the development of peculiar tragic modes and tropes towards the end of the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. In analysing these tropes and demonstrating the ways in which Greek tragic texts have been rethought and rewritten in the adaptions presented, this volume seeks on the one hand to show how tragedy continues to provide a means of articulating contemporary cultural and political preoccupations, while on the other it draws upon a cultural materialist methodology to resist fixed definitions of tragedy and to question established frames and representations.

Author : Richmond Alexander Lattimore,Richmond Lattimore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015002369612

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Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy by Richmond Alexander Lattimore,Richmond Lattimore Pdf

Author : Matthew C. Farmer,Jeremy B. Lefkowitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119622956

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A Companion to Aristophanes by Matthew C. Farmer,Jeremy B. Lefkowitz Pdf

Provides a comprehensive and systematic treatment of the life and work of Aristophanes A Companion to Aristophanes provides an invaluable set of foundational resources for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars alike. More than a basic reference text, this innovative volume situates each of Aristophanes' surviving plays within discussion of key themes relevant to the study of the Aristophanic corpus. Throughout the Companion, an international panel of contributors incorporates material culture and performance context, offers methodological and theoretical insights into the study of Aristophanes, demonstrates the relevance of Aristophanes to modern life, and more. Each chapter focused on a particular play is paired with a theme that is exemplified by that play, such as gender, sexuality, religion, ritual, and satire. With an emphasis on understanding Greek comedy and its ancient Athenian context, the text includes approaches to Aristophanes through criticism, performance, translation, and teaching to encourage and inform future work on Greek comedy. Illustrating the vitality of contemporary engagement with one of the world's great literary figures, this comprehensive volume: Helps new readers and teachers of Aristophanes appreciate the broader importance of each play within the study of antiquity Offers sophisticated analyses of the Aristophanic corpus and its place in literary and cultural history Includes chapters focused on teaching Aristophanes, including one emphasizing performance Provides detailed syllabi and lesson plans for integrating the material into high school and college curricula A Companion to Aristophanes is an essential resource for advanced students and instructors in Classics, Ancient Literature, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Drama and Theater. It is also a must-have reference for academic scholars, university libraries, non-specialist Classicists and other literary critics researching ancient drama, and sophisticated general readers interested in Aristophanes, Greek drama, classical Athens, or the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Bruno Snell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780520319080

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Scenes from Greek Drama by Bruno Snell Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Author : Andreas Serafim,George Kazantzidis,Kyriakos Demetriou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 613 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110695885

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Sex and the Ancient City by Andreas Serafim,George Kazantzidis,Kyriakos Demetriou Pdf

This volume aims to revisit, further explore and tease out the textual, but also non-textual sources in an attempt to reconstruct a clearer picture of a particular aspect of sexuality, i.e. sexual practices, in Greco-Roman antiquity. Sexual practices refers to a part of the overarching notion of sexuality: specifically, the acts of sexual intercourse, the erogenous capacities and genital functions of male and female body, and any other physical or biological actions that define one’s sexual identity or orientation. This volume aims to approach not simply the acts of sexual intercourse themselves, but also their legal, social, political, religious, medical, cultural/moral and interdisciplinary (e.g. emotional, performative) perspectives, as manifested in a range of both textual and non-textual evidence (i.e. architecture, iconography, epigraphy, etc.). The insights taken from the contributions to this volume would enable researchers across a range of disciplines – e.g. sex/gender studies, comparative literature, psychology and cognitive neuroscience – to use theoretical perspectives, methodologies and conceptual tools to frame the sprawling examination of aspects of sexuality in broad terms, or sexual practices in particular.

Author : Andreas Antonopoulos,Menelaos Christopoulos,George William Mallory Harrison
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110725230

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Reconstructing Satyr Drama by Andreas Antonopoulos,Menelaos Christopoulos,George William Mallory Harrison Pdf

The origins of satyr drama, and particularly the reliability of the account in Aristotle, remains contested, and several of this volume’s contributions try to make sense of the early relationship of satyr drama to dithyramb and attempt to place satyr drama in the pre-Classical performance space and traditions. What is not contested is the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy as a required cap to the Attic trilogy. Here, however, how Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides (to whom one complete play and the preponderance of the surviving fragments belong) envisioned the relationship of satyr drama to tragedy in plot, structure, setting, stage action and language is a complex subject tackled by several contributors. The playful satyr chorus and the drunken senility of Silenos have always suggested some links to comedy and later to Atellan farce and phlyax. Those links are best examined through language, passages in later Greek and Roman writers, and in art. The purpose of this volume is probe as many themes and connections of satyr drama with other literary genres, as well as other art forms, putting satyr drama on stage from the sixth century BC through the second century AD. The editors and contributors suggest solutions to some of the controversies, but the volume shows as much that the field of study is vibrant and deserves fuller attention.

Author : Martin Cropp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781800348721

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Minor Greek Tragedians by Martin Cropp Pdf

This is the second volume of a collection which includes all the significant remains of tragedies produced by the contemporaries and successors of the three classic Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides). Greek texts and sources are accompanied by English translations, related historical information, detailed explanatory notes and bibliographies. Volume Two includes more than a dozen poets of the fourth and early third centuries (Astydamas, Carcinus, Chaeremon, Theodectas, Moschion and others), the Alexandrian Pleiad, Ezechiel's Exag�g� (a tragedy based on the biblical Exodus), and some anonymous material derived from ancient sources or rediscovered papyrus texts. Remnants of the satyr-plays of this period are included in a separate Aris & Phillips Classical Texts volume, Euripides Cyclops and Major Fragments of Greek Satyric Drama, edited by Patrick O'Sullivan and Christopher Collard (2013).

Author : Virginia Mastellari
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783946317982

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Fragments in Context - Frammenti e dintorni by Virginia Mastellari Pdf

Die Beiträge des mehrsprachigen Sammelbandes analysieren die »Umgebung« von Fragmenten der griechischen Literatur. Damit sind soziokulturelle und sprachliche Kontexte, dramaturgische Mechanismen sowie Evolutionsprozesse einer literarischen Gattung bis hin zur Rezeption antiker Fragmente gemeint. Dabei gehen sie den Fragen nach, warum, mit welcher Absicht, in welcher Form und in welchem Umfang ein Trägertext ein Fragment zitiert. Der Band eröffnet damit nicht nur der Fragmentforschung unter philologischen und methodologischen Gesichtspunkten neue Wege, sondern erweitert auch das Verständnis der Überlieferungsprozesse antiker Literatur.

Author : Melanie Andresen,Nils Reiter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111071824

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Computational Drama Analysis by Melanie Andresen,Nils Reiter Pdf

Dramatic texts come with a natural structure of acts, scenes and speech clearly assigned to characters that lends itself to computational analysis: These explicit structures allow for straightforward formalizations without extensive preparatory work. Work on drama has therefore always been at the forefront of research in computational literary studies, with its pioneers analyzing drama quantitatively long before the digital age. Today, increasingly large digital text corpora are available and computational literary studies aims at a higher-scaled view on literary history, promising to analyze thousands of literary texts simultaneously. After decades of exploring the possibilities offered by computational methods, the field is now undergoing a phase of consolidation that takes stock of achievements and opportunities and critically reflects the computational methods and interpretations derived from data. Building on insights from the fields' tradition and current research approaches, this volume provides an overview of the status quo of computational drama analysis and explores possible routes for the future.

Author : Ioanna Karamanou
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Edith Hall,Stephe Harrop
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780715638262

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Theorising Performance by Edith Hall,Stephe Harrop Pdf

Constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.

Author : Ioannis M. Konstantakos,Vasileios Liotsakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110715521

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Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature by Ioannis M. Konstantakos,Vasileios Liotsakis Pdf

The use of suspense in ancient literature attracts increasing attention in modern scholarship, but hitherto there has been no comprehensive work analysing the techniques of suspense through the various genres of the Classical literary canon. This volume aspires to fill such a gap, exploring the phenomenon of suspense in the earliest narrative writings of the western world, the literature of the ancient Greeks. The individual chapters focus on a wide range of poetic and prose genres (epic, drama, historiography, oratory, novel, and works of literary criticism) and examine the means by which ancient authors elicited emotions of tense expectation and fearful anticipation for the outcome of the story, the development of the plot, or the characters' fate. A variety of theoretical tools, from narratology and performance studies to psychological and cognitive approaches, are exploited to study the operation of suspense in the works under discussion. Suspenseful effects are analysed in a double perspective, both in terms of the artifices employed by authors and with regard to the responses and experiences of the audience. The volume will be useful to classical scholars, narratologists, and literary historians and theorists.

Author : Hallie Marshall,C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350142367

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Greek Drama V by Hallie Marshall,C. W. Marshall Pdf

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them. Sixteen chapters from a field of international contributors examine a range of topics, from the politics of the ancient theatre, to the role of the chorus, to the earliest history of the reception of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Employing anthropological, historical, and psychological critical methods alongside performance analysis and textual criticism, these studies bring fresh and original interpretations to the plays. Several contributions analyse fragmentary tragedies, while others incorporate ideas on the performance aspect of certain plays. The final chapters deal separately with comedy, naturally focusing on the plays of Aristophanes and Menander. Greek Drama V offers a window into where the academic field of Greek drama is now, and points towards the future scholarship it will produce.