Greek Comedy and Embodied Scholarly Discourse / Anna A. Novokhatko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Novokhatko, Anna A., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Comedy created a joyful mode of perceiving rhetoric, grammar, and literary criticism through the somatic senses of the author, the characters, the actors and the spectators. This was due to generic peculiarities including the omnivore mirroring of contemporary (scholarly) ideas, the materiality of costumes and masks, and the embodiment of abstract notions on stage, in short due to the correspondence between body, language and environment. The materiality of words, letters and syllables in ancient grammar and stylistic criticism is related to the embodied criticism found in Greek comedy. How are scholarly discourses embodied? The act of writing is vividly enacted on stage through carving with effort the shape of the letter 'rho' and commenting emotionally on it. The letters of the alphabet are danced by the chorus, the cognitive and communicative power of gestures and body expression providing emotional context. A barking pickle brine from Thasos is perhaps an olfactory somatosensory visual and auditory embodiment of Archilochean poetry, whilst the actor’s foot in dance is a visual and motor embodiment of a metrical foot on stage. Comedy with its actors, costumes, masks, and props is overflowing with such examples. In this book, the author suggests that comedy made a significant contribution to the establishment of scholarly discourses in Classical Greece.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Proto-semantic studies

Chapter 2 Grammar with perceptual details

Chapter 3 Approaches to style

Chapter 4 Experiencing genres

Chapter 5 Striding in metre

Chapter 6 Discourse on language and dialect

Chapter 7 Tracking Homeric criticism

Chapter 8 The importance of being serious

Conclusion

Abbreviations

Bibliography

General Index

Index vocabulorum Graecorum

Index locorum

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)

ISBN:

3-11-108154-0

9783111081540

OCLC:

1371573295