The Language Of Greek Comedy

Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199245479
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Greek Comedy written by Andreas Willi and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterizationin Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay.While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.

Author : Katherine Lever
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000579271
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Greek Comedy written by Katherine Lever and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life. Aristophanes and Menander are deservedly the most famous writers of Greek comedy. The extant comedies of Aristophanes are notable for wit, comical action, beautiful poetry, and the dramatization of such problems as health of mind and body, sex, money, government, law, religion, education, and drama, music and poetry. Menander portrays with delicate and sympathetic understanding a world in which the seeming evils of loss and discord eventually lead to the genuine goods of discovery and concord. The art of Aristophanes is critically examined in three chapters and that of Menander in one. For centuries Dionysos had been worshipped in a spirit of ecstasy which manifested itself in song, dance and the wearing of masks and costumes, pantomime, farce, and satire. The processes by which these diverse elements were developed and fused into the complex literary form of Old Comedy are the subject of the first three chapters. Aristophanes was not only pre-eminent as a writer of Old Comedy; he also participated in the transformation of Old Comedy into Middle Comedy, a curious and interesting dramatic form which is fully treated in the seventh chapter. In the last chapter the emergence of New Comedy is traced and the art of Menander criticized. The book ends with a brief indication of the various forms in which the spirit of Greek comedy had survived to the present day.

Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Greek Comedy written by Andreas Willi and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume, by a team of international experts, illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment.

Author : Gilbert Norwood
Publisher : Routledge Library Editions: Comedy
ISBN 13 : 9781032218076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Comedy written by Gilbert Norwood and published by Routledge Library Editions: Comedy. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1931, this book surveys the origin and development of Greek Comic Drama, with full discussion not only of Aristophanes and Menander but also of other important playwrights whose work had usually received scant notice because only fragments of it have survived.

Author : David Konstan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195092945
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Comedy and Ideology written by David Konstan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. Individual chapters treat Aristophanic and Menandrean comedies.

Author : Gregory Dobrov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004188843
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy written by Gregory Dobrov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to the Study of Greek Comedy sets forth the main resources for the advancing student in three sections: "Contexts,""History," and "Elements.” The volume is a guide for understanding and interpreting the classic comedies as well as for navigating the principal corpora of texts, fragments and scholia.

Author : Almut Fries
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110646269
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Greek Comedy written by Almut Fries and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John Williams White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Verse of Greek Comedy written by John Williams White and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen E. Kidd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107050154
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy written by Stephen E. Kidd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.

Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191529699
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Greek Comedy written by Andreas Willi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterization in Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy, and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay. While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics, and textual criticism) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.