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Aristophanes and the poetics of competition /
"Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performanc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (page 25279) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781139077781 1139077783 9780511779169 051177916X 9781107525948 1107525942 1139063243 9781139063241 1107217172 9781107217171 1283112434 9781283112437 1139075527 9781139075527 9786613112439 6613112437 1139082345 9781139082341 1139080075 9781139080071 1139069764 9781139069762 |