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Rhetoric, comedy, and the violence of language in Aristophanes' Clouds /
This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the bod...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos--explored in the comic. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1601298285 9781601298287 9780195361452 0195361458 9780195070170 0195070178 1280441011 9781280441011 |