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Author : Cedric H. Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674437401
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and the Comic Hero written by Cedric H. Whitman and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Revermann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760283
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy written by Martin Revermann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author : Cedric H. Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and the comic hero written by Cedric H. Whitman and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Hokenson
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640968
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Idea of Comedy written by Jan Hokenson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Disengaging unstated premises to show how the theoretical discourse about comedy often enacts the intellectual disputes of its time, The idea of comedy tracks the history of comic theories along two principal axes. The first is historical, showing how the Hellenistic ethical conception devolves into social superiority and then into populist assertions, enidng on the question of whether contemporary comic theory is still populist today." "The second axis is conceptual, sorting theories by types of agreement and dispute. Whether comedy improves the citizens or threatens political instability, whether it insults or enacts moral standards, whether it serves God and the integrated superego or the devil and the anarchic id, are some of the questions addressed by theroists such as Cicero, Maggi, Dryden, Kant, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, and Genette." -book jacket.
Author : Travis Smith
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599475529
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Superhero Ethics written by Travis Smith and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether in comic books or on movie screens, superhero stories are where many people first encounter questions about how they should conduct their lives. Although these outlandish figures—in their capes, masks, and tights, with their unbelievable origins and preternatural powers—are often dismissed as juvenile amusements, they really are profound metaphors for different approaches to shaping one’s character and facing the challenges of life. But, given the choice, which superhero should we follow today? Who is most worthy of our admiration? Whose goals are most noble? Whose ethics should we strive to emulate? To decide, Travis Smith takes ten top superheroes and pits them one against another, chapter by chapter. The hero who better exemplifies how we ought to live advances to the final round. By the end of the book, a single superhero emerges victorious and is crowned most exemplary for our times. How, then, shall we live? How can we overcome our beastly nature and preserve our humanity? (The Hulk vs. Wolverine) How far can we rely on our willpower and imagination to improve the human condition? (Iron Man vs. Green Lantern) What limits must we observe when protecting our neighborhood from crime and corruption? (Batman vs. Spider-Man) Will the pursuit of an active life or a contemplative life bring us true fulfillment? (Captain America vs. Mr. Fantastic) Should we put our faith in proven tradition or in modern progress to achieve a harmonious society? (Thor vs. Superman) Using superheroes to bring into focus these timeless themes of the human condition, Smith takes us on an adventure as fantastic as any you’ll find on a splash page or the silver screen—an intellectual adventure filled with surprising insights, unexpected twists and turns, and a daring climax you’ll be thinking about long after it’s over.
Author : Gwendolyn Compton-Engle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107083796
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Costume in the Comedies of Aristophanes written by Gwendolyn Compton-Engle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interprets the handling of costume in the plays of the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes, using as evidence the surviving plays as well as vase-paintings and terracotta figurines. This book fills a gap in the study of ancient Greek drama, focusing on performance, gender, and the body.
Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1910589594
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Rivals of Aristophanes written by David Harvey and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2002-12-31 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the 'other' comic poets of classical Athens, those who competed with, and in some cases defeated, their (eventually) better-known fellow comedian, Aristophanes, has almost eluded the historical record. The poetry of Cratinus, Phrynichos, Eupolis and the rest has survived only in tantalising, often tiny, fragments and citations. Modern studies in this field have themselves often been difficult of access. Here an exceptional cast of scholars, including most of the leading international authorities, provides a set of 28 interpretative essays to cover every one of these 'other' poets of Athenian Old Comedy for whom significant evidence survives. The work includes a comprehensive bibliography, and is a landmark in the study of Old Comedy.
Author : Erich Segal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674043411
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (434 download)
Download or read book The Death of Comedy written by Erich Segal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd.
Author : Thomas K. Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Mask of Comedy written by Thomas K. Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hubbard demonstrates that far from being a digression or a relic of long-forgotten rituals, the parabasis provides a critical link between the identities of the poet, chorus, and protagonist, and between the play and its audience.
Author : Robert M. Torrance
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674434011
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Comic Hero written by Robert M. Torrance and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew C. Farmer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190492074
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Tragedy on the Comic Stage written by Matthew C. Farmer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies. Tragedy on the Comic Stage contextualizes this engagement with tragedy within Greek comedy as a genre by examining paratragedy in the fragments of Aristophanes' contemporaries and successors in the fifth and fourth centuries.
Author : Dimitris Asimakoulas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030195279
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Rewriting Humour in Comic Books written by Dimitris Asimakoulas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals and their English translations and offers a unique, language-led research agenda for cultural flows, and the systematic analysis of textual norms in a multimodal environment. It will appeal to students and scholars of Modern Languages, Translation Studies, Comics Studies, Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature.
Author : Ben Akrigg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107008557
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greek Comic Drama written by Ben Akrigg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek comedy offers a unique insight into the reality of life as a slave, giving this disenfranchised group a 'voice'.
Author : Angus M. Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521440127
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes written by Angus M. Bowie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places the plays of Aristophanes in their contemporary context, asking what aspects of Greek, and especially Athenian, culture these comedies brought into play for their original audiences. It makes particular use of the structural analysis of Greek rituals and myths to demonstrate how their meanings and functions can be used to interpret the plays. This information is then used to suggest ways in which twentieth-century audiences may read the plays in terms of contemporary literary theories and concerns. This is the first book to apply the techniques of structural anthropology systematically to all the comedies. It does not impose a single interpretative structure on the plays but argues that each play operates with a range of different structures, and that groups of plays use similar structures in different ways. All Greek is translated.
Author : Daniel Holmes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498590772
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Philosophy, Poetry, and Power in Aristophanes's Birds written by Daniel Holmes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes was clearly anxious about the role of the sophists and the “new” education in Athens. After the perceived failure of Clouds in 423 and its subsequent, unperformed revision, Aristophanes, this book argues, returned in 414 with Birds, a continuation and deepening of his critique found in Clouds. Peisetaerus or “persuader of his comrades,” the protagonist of Birds, though an old man, is clearly a student of Socrates’ phrontisterion. Unlike Socrates, however, he is political and ambitious and he understands the whole of human nature, both rational and irrational. Peisetaerus employs the various deconstructive techniques of Socrates and his allies (which is summed up on the comic sage in the image of “father-beating”) to overturn not just human society, but, with the help of his new allies, the divine and musical birds, the cosmos. After his new gods and bird city, Cloudcuckooland, are actually established, however, the hero re-introduces the “old” ways - justice, moderation, and obedience to law – but now under his personal authority, and thereby becomes “the highest of the gods.” Thus, the author postulates, in 414 Aristophanes has come to acknowledge the potency of the apparent civic-minded turn (or element) of the sophists, while aware of the self-aggrandizing nature of their ambition. Peisetaerus, unlike Socrates, is successful: he is establishing a just polis and cosmos and, therefore, must be victorious. But the consequence or cost of this success is illustrated through the Bird Chorus. After the polis is founded, the birds never again sing of their musical reciprocity with the Muses, the source of melodies for men. The birds are now political and the policemen of human beings. The sophist-run cosmos has lost its music. The new Zeus is an ugly bird-mutant. The gods and all nomoi have lost their beauty, honor, and reverential nature. Birds, in its finale, hilariously, but boldlyilluminates the inherent tension between philosophy (reason) and poetry (divinely-inspired tradition).
Author : Stephanie Nelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004310916
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse written by Stephanie Nelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-02-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the two. And yet the genres developed together, were performed together, and influenced each other to the extent of becoming polar opposites. In Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse, Stephanie Nelson considers this opposition through an analysis of how the genres developed, by looking at the tragic and comic elements in satyr drama, and by contrasting specific Aristophanes plays with tragedies on similar themes, such as the individual, the polis, and the gods. The study reveals that tragedy’s focus on necessity and a quest for meaning complements a neglected but critical element in Athenian comedy: its interest in freedom, and the ambivalence of its incompatible visions of reality.
Author : Robert Mitchell Torrance
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Comic Hero written by Robert Mitchell Torrance and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively book is a portrayal and a celebration of the hero in comedy, from ancient Greek literature to modern American fiction. Robert Torrance shows us a hero who survives by continually changing, who cherishes what others mock and commands assent by adherence to the truth of his own invention. The comic hero makes his debut as Homer's resourceful Odysseus, a king in beggar's rags, and reappears as the visionary jackanapes of Aristphanies' fantasies. We meet him as a slace in Plautus, an ass in Apuleius, and a fox in the medieval saga of Reynard. He rules a festive kingdom as Flastaff and aspires to restore the Golden Age as Don Quixote. In Fielding he seems a rake and in Diderot a fatalist; a romantic lover in Byron and a hopeless bungler in Flaubert. In our own time his names have been Leopold Bloom and Felix Krull, Schweik, Gulley Jimson, Yossarian, and Randle Patrick McMurphy. Whatever his guise, the comic hero affirms a defiant vision of life and freedom that sets him apart from everyone else and makes him one with us all.
