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Talking about Laughter : And Other Studies in Greek Comedy by Alan H. Sommerstein (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-100199554196
ISBN-139780199554195
eBay Product ID (ePID)70936628
Product Key Features
Number of Pages358 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameTalking about Laughter : and Other Studies in Greek Comedy
SubjectAncient & Classical
Publication Year2009
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Drama
AuthorAlan H. Sommerstein
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight20.4 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-942640
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"Talking About Laughteris a must-read for specialists, but it also has much to offer non-specialists and both graduate and advanced undergraduate students: these are original works of scholarship that wear their great learning lightly, that are lucidly and engagingly written, and that illuminate important topics with cogency, imagination, and flair." --Classical World, "Talking About Laughter is a must-read for specialists, but it also has much to offer non-specialists and both graduate and advanced undergraduate students: these are original works of scholarship that wear their great learning lightly, that are lucidly and engagingly written, and that illuminate important topics with cogency, imagination, and flair." --Classical World
Dewey Decimal882.0109
Table Of ContentIntroduction1: The language of Athenian women2: The naming of women in Greek and Roman comedy3: The anatomy of euphemism in Aristophanic comedy4: Talking about laughter in Aristophanes5: Old Comedians on Old Comedy6: Slave and citizen in Aristophanic comedy7: Monsters, ogres and demons in Old Comedy8: The silence of Strepsiades and the agon of the first Clouds9: Response to Niall Slater10: An alternative democracy and an alternative to democracy in Aristophanic comedy11: Lysistrata the warrior12: Nudity, obscenity and power: modes of female assertiveness in Aristophanes13: Kleophon and the restaging of Frogs14: Platonios diff.com. 29-31 and 46-52 Koster: Aristophanes' Aiolosikon, Kratinos' Odyssês and Middle Comedy
SynopsisFourteen studies, including some previously unpublished, by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow dramatists. Each chapter deals with its own topic, but between them they build up a multifaceted picture of the dramatist, the genre, and its interactions with the society of classical Athens., This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.
LC Classification NumberPA3629
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