Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise

Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9783110677034
ISBN-13 : 3110677032
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Book Synopsis Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise by : Dimitrios Kanellakis

Download or read book Aristophanes and the Poetics of Surprise written by Dimitrios Kanellakis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as an elaborate system which characterises the style of the specific dramatist. More precisely, the book analyses Aristophanes’ most prominent verbal, thematic, and theatrical modes of surprise from a typological perspective, and interprets them as comprising the key area in which the playwright claims and demonstrates his artistic superiority over rival genres and individual poets. In line with this purpose, two parallel aims of the book are to provide an original commentary on the passages under examination, and to promote the study of modern performances – a practice which has so far been either restricted to Classical Reception or only theoretically acknowledged (if at all) by mainstream philological scholarship. This is a timely book on a topic of wide current interest across a range of interlocking disciplines: emotion studies, semiotics, narratology, information theory, and -most pertinently for this book- humour research.


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