The Languages Of Aristophanes

Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN 13 : 0199262640
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Languages of Aristophanes written by Andreas Willi and published by Oxford Classical Monographs. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining linguistic variation in Aristophanic comedy, Andreas Willi opens up a new perspective on intra-dialectal diversity in Classical Attic Greek. A representative range of registers, technical languages, sociolects, and (comic) idiolects is described and analyzed. Stylistic and statistical observations are combined and supplemented by typological comparisons with material drawn from sociolinguistic research on modern languages. The resulting portrayal of the Attic dialect deepens our understanding of various socio-cultural phenomena reflected in Aristophanes' work.

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 : Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195070178
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds written by Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos--explored in the comic mode, and connected with the intentions and vicissitudes of the first and second Clouds.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialect in Aristophanes written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Colvin
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dialect in Aristophanes written by Stephen Colvin and published by Oxford Classical Monographs. This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did the Greeks find it amusing, irritating or threatening when they heard another Greek speaking in a different dialect? Were they rude or tolerant when they heard Persians or Scythians speaking fractured Greek? And what about low-class varieties of the Greek spoken in the docks of Piraeus?Our evidence for the sociolinguistic culture of the ancient world is sadly limited, and modern linguistic assumptions and prejudices are often unconsciously projected onto old and alien cultures. This book exploits the evidence of ancient Greek comedy in an attempt to answer some of the questionsabout language attitude which are important for understanding ancient ideas about language and ethnicity. Conclusions are based on a comparative study of the language of dialect speaking characters and other foreigners in Old Comedy, and on an examination of linguistic attitudes in other genres ofGreek literature.

Author : Daphne O'Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195361458
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds written by Daphne O'Regan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-10-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos--explored in the comic mode, and connected with the intentions and vicissitudes of the first and second Clouds.

Author : Charles Platter
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080189333X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres written by Charles Platter and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comedies of Aristophanes are known not only for their boldly imaginative plots but for the ways in which they incorporate and orchestrate a wide variety of literary genres and speech styles. Unlike the writers of tragedy, who prefer a uniformly elevated tone, Aristophanes articulates his dramatic dialogue with striking literary and linguistic juxtapositions, producing a carnivalesque medley of genres that continually forces both audience and reader to readjust their perspectives. In this energetic and original study, Charles Platter interprets the complexities of Aristophanes' work through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical writing. This book charts a new course for Aristophanic comedy, taking its lead from the work of Bakhtin. Bakhtin describes the way multiple voices—vocabularies, tones, and styles of language originating in different social classes and contexts—appear and interact within literary texts. He argues that the dynamic quality of literature arises from the dialogic relations that exist among these voices. Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications for Aristophanic comedy, where stylistic heterogeneity is the genre's lifeblood.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959487
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classical Comedy written by Aristophanes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary themes of mistaken identity and sexual misbehaviour; and two later Roman comic plays: Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus - the original comedy of errors - and Terence's bawdy yet sophisticated double love-plot, The Eunuch. Together, these four plays demonstrate the development of Classical comedy, celebrating its richness, variety and extraordinary legacy to modern drama.

Author : Edward William Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Parody written by Edward William Hope and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. S. Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199253821
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy written by M. S. Silk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.