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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour.
This richly illustrated book is a comprehensive study of visual humour in ancient Greece, emphasising works created in Athens and Boeotia.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour; Contents; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1. Theoretical Approaches; Terminology; General Theories on Humour and General Confusion; A Few Principles Specifically Useful to this Study; 2. Greek Vases and Visual Humour; Greek Vases: Connoisseurship, Context, and Chronology; Connoisseurship; Provenance and Market(s); Chronology; Past Scholarship on Visual Humour; How to Identify Comic Pictures: Methodology and Categories of Visual Humour; Methodology.
- Mechanisms and Categories of Visual HumourComic Mechanisms; Visual Puns and Parody; Caricature; Situation Comedy; 2 Humour in the City: The World of Men, Women, and Animals; 1. The Comical Inanimate: Visual Puns and Misused Objects; Eye-cups; Apotropaism; Anthropomorphism; Humour: Corrupted Eyes and Visual Puns; Shield Devices; Vase Function: Is this an Oinochoe or a Pissing Pot?; 2. Animals and Situation Comedy: The Disobedient Domestic Animal; Dogs in a Pantry; Dogs in Everyday Life: Workshops, Butchers, Symposia, and Altars; A Misplaced Duck; Horses and Donkeys.
- 3. Everyday Life Stereotypes and Comic Archetypes: Comic WomenRespectable Women, Hetairai, and Pornai; Comic Archetypes: The Sleeping Guardian or the Lazy Woman; Women Gossiping, Getting Drunk, and Sex-crazed; Erotic Thoughts, Dildoes, and some Flying Penises; 4. Treatment of Foreigners and Political Satire; A Drunk Scythian; Eurymedon; 5. Reprehensible Social Behaviour; Drinking In Excess; Gluttons; 3 Humour in the City: Gods, heroes, and myth; 1. Heroes Ridiculed; Peleus; Judgement of Paris; Diomedes; Ilioupersis; Bellerophon; Pygmies and Cranes; Herakles.
- A Caricature of Herakles ApotheosisHerakles and the Lion Skin; Herakles and Old Age; Tricked Tricksters, Surprise, and the Degradation of Status; Eurystheus and the Erymanthian Boar (Tables 5A-B, 12); Inversion and the Kerkopes Brothers; Herakles: A Super-hero or a Super-glutton?; 2. Gods Degraded; Athena and Pseudo Panathenaic Amphorae; Nature of the Objects and their Iconography; Corrupted Iconography and Comic Iconography; Athena and the Owl: A Special Relationship; Hermes the Trickster: Gods Made Children: The Benevolent Laugh.