Aristophanic Humour
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Aristophanic Humour
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Author : Peter Swallow
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-06-11
Aristophanic Humour written by Peter Swallow and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-11 with Drama categories.
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.
Aristophanes And The Definition Of Comedy
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Author : M. S. Silk
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Aristophanes And The Definition Of Comedy written by M. S. Silk and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.
Aristophanic Comedy
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Author : K. J. Dover
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1972-03
Aristophanic Comedy written by K. J. Dover and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972-03 with Drama categories.
Professor Dover's newest book is designed for those who are interested in the history of comedy as an art form but who are not necessarily familiar with the Greek language. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are treated as representative of a genre. Old Attic Comedy, which was artistically and intellectually homogeneous and gave expression to the spirit of Athenian society in the late fifth and early fourth centuries B.C. Aristophanes is regarded primarily not as a reformer or propagandist but as a dramatist who sought, in competition with his rivals, to win the esteem both of the general public and of the cultivated and critical minority. He succeeded in this effort by making people laugh, and the book pays more attention than has generally been paid to the technical means, whether of language or of situation, on which Aristophanes' humor depends. Particular emphasis is laid on his indifference-positively assisted by the physical limitations of the Greek theatre and the conditions of the Athenian dramatic festivals-to the maintenance of continuous “dramatic illusion” or to the provision of a dramatic event with the antecedents and consequences which might logically be expected. More importance is attached to Aristophanes' adoption of popular attitudes and beliefs, to his creation of uninhibited characters with which the spectators could identify themselves, and to his acceptance of the comic poet's traditional role as a mordant but jocular critic of morals, than to any identifiable and consistent elements in his political standpoint.
Humour Obscenity And Aristophanes
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Author : James Robson
language : en
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Release Date : 2006
Humour Obscenity And Aristophanes written by James Robson and has been published by Gunter Narr Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
Political Comedy In Aristophanes
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Author : Malcolm Heath
language : en
Publisher: Vandehoeck & Rupprecht
Release Date : 1987
Political Comedy In Aristophanes written by Malcolm Heath and has been published by Vandehoeck & Rupprecht this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Drama categories.
Comic Business
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Author : Martin Revermann
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-05-18
Comic Business written by Martin Revermann and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Comic Business situates Aristophanic comedy in the context of competitive (re)performance culture in 5th- and 4th-century Greece. It seeks to illuminate how the dazzling busyness of Aristophanic comedy is the creation of a carefully manipulating craftsman trying to outdo his rivals in the fierce competition of the dramatic festivals. Theoretically informed by theatre semiotics and frame-based models of conceptualizing the theatrical event, it analyses in a number of case studies how theatrical resources of all kinds are utilized in order to generate theatrical meaning as well as capture and sustain audience interest. The approach therefore combines philological analysis with methodologies developed in Theatre Studies. Special attention is given to the visual dimension of theatrical communication. Material from comparator traditions is brought to bear, as is the evidence of the pictorial record.
Philosophy Comedy
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Author : Bernard Freydberg
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2008
Philosophy Comedy written by Bernard Freydberg and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Drama categories.
Reveals comedy's contributions to the philosophical enterprise
Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Surprise
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Author : Dimitrios Kanellakis
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-01-20
Aristophanes And The Poetics Of Surprise written by Dimitrios Kanellakis and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Aristophanes And The Definition Of Comedy
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Author : M. S. Silk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Aristophanes And The Definition Of Comedy written by M. S. Silk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Aristophanes categories.
Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy
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Author : Mario Telò
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2016-04-18
Aristophanes The Cloak Of Comedy written by Mario Telò and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-18 with Performing Arts categories.
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.