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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; 1. The Changing Role of Logos: Background; 2. Setting the Scene: Lines 1-132; 3. Meeting the Wise Souls and Their Gods: Lines 133-313; 4. Martial Speech, Fluid Shapes, Thunderous Sounds: Lines 314-509; 5. Aristophanes' Failures
- The Parabasis: Lines 510-626; 6. Strepsiades' Failures: Lines 627-888; 7. The Debate of the Logoi
- The Agon: Lines 889-1112; 8. The Triumph of Practical Sophistry: Lines 1113-1302; 9. Comic Justice: Lines 1303-1510; Conclusion: Our Innovative, Democratic Clouds; Appendix: The Clouds' Two Versions; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Passages; A; C; E.