[PDF] Aristophanes And The Carnival Of Genres eBook

Author : Charles Platter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 080189333X

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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 : A&C Black
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1472503945

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Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.

Author : Dimitrios Kanellakis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110677032

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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.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780192824080

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Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary combinations of fantasy and satire,sophistication and vulgarity, formality and freedom. Birds is an escapist fantasy in which two dissatisfied Athenians, in defiance of men and gods, bring about a city of birds, the eponymous Cloudcuckooland. In Lysistrata the heroine of the play organizes a sex-strike and the wives of Athens occupythe Akropolis in an attempt to restore peace to the city. The main source of comedy in the Assembly-Women is a similar usurpation of male power as the women attempt to reform Athenian society along utopian-communist lines. Finally, Wealth is Aristophanes' last surviving comedy, in which Ploutos, thegod of wealth is cured of his blindness and the remarkable social consequences of his new discrimination are exemplified. This is the first complete verse translation of Aristophanes' comedies to appear for more than twenty-five years and makes freshly available one of the most remarkable comic playwrights in the entire Western tradition, complete with an illuminating introduction including play by play analysis anddetailed notes.

Author : M. S. Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 34,21 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199253821

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All Greek in the text is translated; the versions offered seek to convey the distinctive character of the original."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,83 MB
Release : 2006-05-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553902598

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A poet who hated an age of decadence, armed conflict, and departure from tradition, Aristophanes' comic genius influenced the political and social order of his own fifth-century Athens. But as Moses Hadas writes in his introduction to this volume, 'His true claim upon our attention is as the most brilliant and artistic and thoughtful wit our world has known.' Includes The Acharnians, The Birds, The Clouds, Ecclesiazusae, The Frogs, The Knights, Lysistrata, Peace, Plutus, Thesmophoriazusae, and The Wasps.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780872203600

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Presents translations of three satirical plays along with information on staging, history, religious practice, myths, and issues raised by each play.