Greek comedy and the discourse of genres / edited by E. Bakola, L. Prauscello and M. Telò.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bakola, Emmanuela, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Greek drama (Comedy)--Influence.

Intertextuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 404 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Greek Comedy & the Discourse of Genres

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.

Contents:

Introduction : Greek comedy as a fabric of generic discourse / Emmanuela Bakola, Lucia Prauscello, Mario Telò

pt. I Comedy and genre : self-definition and development : The Greek dramatic genres : theoretical perspectives / Michael Silk

Comedy and the Pompe : Dionysian genre-crossing / Eric Csapo

Iambos, comedy and the question of generic affiliation / Ralph Rosen

pt. II Comedy and genres in dialogue : Comedy and epic : Paraepic comedy : point(s) and practices / Martin Revermann

Epic, nostos and generic genealogy in Aristophanes' Peace / Mario Telò

Comedy and lyric : Comedy and the civic chorus / Chris Carey

Aristophanes' Simonides : lyric models for praise and blame / Richard Rawles

Comedy and tragedy : Comedy versus tragedy in Wasps / Matthew Wright

Crime and punishment : Cratinus, Aeschylus' Oresteia, and the metaphysics and politics of wealth / Emmanuela Bakola

From Achilles' horses to a cheese-seller's shop : on the history of the guessing game in Greek drama / Marco Fantuzzi, David Konstan

Comedy, the fable and the ethnographic tradition : The Aesopic in Aristophanes / Edith Hall

The mirror of Aristophanes : the winged ethnographers of Birds (1470-93, 1553-64, 1694-1705) / Jeffrey Rusten

pt. III The reception of comedy and comic discourse : Comedy and comic discourse in Plato's Laws / Lucia Prauscello

Comedy and the Pleiad : Alexandrian tragedians and the birth of comic scholarship / Nick Lowe.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-35800-0

1-107-23820-X

1-107-34463-8

1-107-34932-X

1-107-34838-2

1-107-34588-X

1-107-34213-9

1-139-51960-3

OCLC:

840132538