Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse
Title | Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse PDF eBook |
Author | Stephanie Nelson |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2016-02-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9004310916 |
Despite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the two. And yet the genres developed together, were performed together, and influenced each other to the extent of becoming polar opposites. In Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse, Stephanie Nelson considers this opposition through an analysis of how the genres developed, by looking at the tragic and comic elements in satyr drama, and by contrasting specific Aristophanes plays with tragedies on similar themes, such as the individual, the polis, and the gods. The study reveals that tragedy’s focus on necessity and a quest for meaning complements a neglected but critical element in Athenian comedy: its interest in freedom, and the ambivalence of its incompatible visions of reality.
Tragedy on the Comic Stage
Title | Tragedy on the Comic Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Matthew C. Farmer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0190492074 |
Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries.
Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres
Title | Aristophanes and the Carnival of Genres PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Platter |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 080189333X |
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.
Aristophanes
Title | Aristophanes PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Eleazer Lord |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | European literature |
ISBN |
Paracomedy
Title | Paracomedy PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Jendza |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 361 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0190090936 |
Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence.
The Browning cyclopaedia
Title | The Browning cyclopaedia PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Berdoe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1897 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Complete Works
Title | Complete Works PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Browning |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1898 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |