Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres

ISBN-13: 9781108820080 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 420 str.

Emmanuela Bakola; Lucia Prauscello; Mario Tel?

Opis

Innovative treatment of Greek comedy, showing that an essential characteristic at the heart of its identity is its voracious and multifarious dialogue with a large spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions which surround and shape it. Explores comedy's interactions with numerous other genres within a unified interpretative framework.

Recenzje

'As is bound to be the case with a volume emanating from a conference … the essays [do not] exhaust the range of traditions to which comedy turns its attention. Readers will find much of interest in them … and their combined value is to demonstrate the variegated patterns of literary subsumed within comedy and to point the way for further inquiry.' Zachary Biles, De Novis Libris Iudicia

Spis treści

Introduction: comedy as a fabric of generic discourse Emmanuela Bakola, Lucia Prauscello and Mario Telò; Part I. Comedy and Genre: Self-Definition and Development: 1. Greek dramatic genres: theoretical perspectives Michael Silk; 2. Comedy and the Pompê: Dionysian genre-crossing Eric Csapo; 3. Iambos, comedy and the question of generic affiliation Ralph Rosen; Part II. Comedy and Genres in Dialogue: 4. Paraepic comedy: point(s) and practices Martin Revermann; 5. Epic, nostos and generic genealogy in Aristophanes' Peace Mario Telò; 6. Comedy and the civic chorus Chris Carey; 7. Aristophanes' Simonides: lyric models for praise and blame Richard Rawles; 8. Comedy versus tragedy in Wasps Matthew Wright; 9. Crime and punishment: Cratinus on Aeschylus, on the metaphysics and on the politics of wealth Emmanuela Bakola; 10. From Achilles' horses to a cheese-seller's shop: on the history of the guessing game in Greek drama Marco Fantuzzi and David Konstan; 11. The Aesopic in Greek comedy Edith Hall; 12. The mirror of Aristophanes: the winged ethnographers of Birds (1470–93, 1553–64, 1694–1705) Jeffrey Rusten; Part III. The Reception of Comedy and Comic Discourse: 13. Comedy and comic discourse in Plato's Laws Lucia Prauscello; 14. Comedy and the Pleiad: Alexandrian tragedians and the birth of comic scholarship Nick Lowe.