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Performative Plautus : Sophistics, metatheater and translation /
This book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance. The book offers an insightful understanding of Plautus' texts as more than simple literary remains of "archai...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance. The book offers an insightful understanding of Plautus' texts as more than simple literary remains of "archaic" Latin literature, but as witnesses of a process of using language to perform an entire world through the recognition of the power of language itself as a creative and constitutive agent of theatrical codification and variation of its own rules and conventions. The analyses of several of Plautus' plays are. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 110 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781443884419 1443884413 |