Greek comedy and the discourse of genres / edited by E. Bakola, L. Prauscello and M. Telò.

Other author Bakola, Emmanuela.
Other author Prauscello, L. (Lucia)
Other author Telò, Mario.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Descriptionxvi, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : Greek comedy as a fabric of generic discourse / Emmanuela Bakola, Lucia Prauscello, Mario Telò -- pt. I Comedy and genre : self-definition and development : The Greek dramatic genres : theoretical perspectives / Michael Silk -- Comedy and the Pompe : Dionysian genre-crossing / Eric Csapo -- Iambos, comedy and the question of generic affiliation / Ralph Rosen -- pt. II Comedy and genres in dialogue : Comedy and epic : Paraepic comedy : point(s) and practices / Martin Revermann -- Epic, nostos and generic genealogy in Aristophanes' Peace / Mario Telò -- Comedy and lyric : Comedy and the civic chorus / Chris Carey -- Aristophanes' Simonides : lyric models for praise and blame / Richard Rawles -- Comedy and tragedy : Comedy versus tragedy in Wasps / Matthew Wright -- Crime and punishment : Cratinus, Aeschylus' Oresteia, and the metaphysics and politics of wealth / Emmanuela Bakola -- From Achilles' horses to a cheese-seller's shop : on the history of the guessing game in Greek drama / Marco Fantuzzi, David Konstan -- Comedy, the fable and the ethnographic tradition : The Aesopic in Aristophanes / Edith Hall -- The mirror of Aristophanes : the winged ethnographers of Birds (1470-93, 1553-64, 1694-1705) / Jeffrey Rusten -- pt. III The reception of comedy and comic discourse : Comedy and comic discourse in Plato's Laws / Lucia Prauscello -- Comedy and the Pleiad : Alexandrian tragedians and the birth of comic scholarship / Nick Lowe.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 2012042716
ISBN9781107033313 (hardback)
ISBN1107033314 (hardback)

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