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Book Synopsis Greek Literature by : P. E. Easterling
Download or read book Greek Literature written by P. E. Easterling and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, Volume 1 offers a comprehensive survey of Greek literature from Homer to end of the period of stable Graeco-Roman civilation in the third century A.D. It embodies the advances made by recent classical scholarship and pays particular attention to texts that have become known in modern times. After its success in hardcover, this volume is now being issued in four paperback parts, providing individual texts on early Greek poetry, Greek drama, philosophy, history and oratory, and on the literature of the Hellenistic period and the Empire. A chapter on books and readers in the Greek world concludes Part 4. Each part has its own appendix of authors and works, a list of works cited, and an index."--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Adapting Greek Tragedy by : Vayos Liapis
Download or read book Adapting Greek Tragedy written by Vayos Liapis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how contemporary adaptations, on the stage and on the page, can breathe new life into Greek tragedy.
Book Synopsis Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds by : Aristophanes
Download or read book Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds written by Aristophanes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology offers English translations of three of Aristophanes' greatest comedies, Acharnians, Clouds, and Lysistrata, by Jeffrey Henderson, one of the most important scholars and translators of Greek comedy. Each comedy is also available in a single-play edition from Hackett Publishing's Focus imprint.
Book Synopsis The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides by : Marco Fantuzzi
Download or read book The Rhesus Attributed to Euripides written by Marco Fantuzzi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tragedy Rhesus has come down to us among the plays of Euripides but was probably the work either of fourth-century BC actors or producers heavily rewriting his original play or of a fourth-century author writing in competition. This edition explores the play as a 'postclassical' tragedy, composed when the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides had become the 'classical' canon. Its stylistic mannerisms, cerebral re-use of the motifs and language of fifth-century tragedy, and endemic experimentalism with various models of intertextuality exemplify the anxiety of influence of the Rhesus as a text that 'comes after' fifth-century drama and Book 10 of the Iliad. The anachronistic adaptations of the world of the epic heroes to the new reality of the polis and the irresistible rise of Macedonian power also reveal the Rhesus attempting to be both seriously intertextual with its models and seriously different from them.
Book Synopsis An Annotated Dictionary of Technical, Historical, and Stylistic Terms Relating to Theatre and Drama by : R. Kerry White
Download or read book An Annotated Dictionary of Technical, Historical, and Stylistic Terms Relating to Theatre and Drama written by R. Kerry White and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Heavenly Chorus by : Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler
Download or read book A Heavenly Chorus written by Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The claim that Revelation's hymns function as did Classical tragic choral lyrics insofar as they comment upon or interpret the surrounding narrative has become axiomatic in studies of Revelation. Justin Jeffcoat Schedtler marks an advance in this line of inquiry by offering an exegetical analysis of Revelation's hymns alongside a presentation of the forms and functions of ancient tragic choruses and choral lyrics. Evaluating the hymns in light of the varieties and complexities of ancient tragic choruses, he demonstrate that they are not best evaluated in terms of choral lyrics generally, but in terms of dramatic hymns in particular, insofar as they constitute mythological-theological reflections on the surrounding narrative, and function to situate the surrounding dramatic activity in a particular mythological-theological contexts.
Download or read book The Play of Space written by Rush Rehm and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama.
Book Synopsis The Art of Aeschylus by : Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Download or read book The Art of Aeschylus written by Thomas G. Rosenmeyer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Converging Truths by : Katerina Zacharia
Download or read book Converging Truths written by Katerina Zacharia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Euripides’ Ion, produced in 412 BC at a period of political crisis in Athens. Through careful analysis of its political, psychological, religious and poetic aspects and use of modern critical theory and recent scholarship on Athenian ethnicity, the Ion emerges as a polyphonic work expressing different and converging truths.
Download or read book Clouds written by Aristophanes and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-29 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an English translation of Aristophanes' famous comedy, Clouds, noted for its critique of philosophy, society and education. It includes essays on Old Comedy and the Theater of Dionysus, suggestions for further reading, notes on production, and a map. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
Book Synopsis Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse by : Stephanie Nelson
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.
Book Synopsis Performance, Style and Gesture in Western Theatre by : Nicholas Dromgoole
Download or read book Performance, Style and Gesture in Western Theatre written by Nicholas Dromgoole and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and significance. In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces the origins and evolution of this lost 'language of gesture' from ancient Greece to the contemporary stage, and asks what it would actually have been like to watch the great plays - and the great actors - of western theatre in their own day.
Book Synopsis Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) by : Lauren Taaffe
Download or read book Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) written by Lauren Taaffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Greek Architecture by : Margaret M. Miles
Download or read book A Companion to Greek Architecture written by Margaret M. Miles and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-06-13 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Greek Architecture provides an expansive overview of the topic, including design, engineering, and construction as well as theory, reception, and lasting impact. Covers both sacred and secular structures and complexes, with particular attention to architectural decoration, such as sculpture, interior design, floor mosaics, and wall painting Makes use of new research from computer-driven technologies, the study of inscriptions and archaeological evidence, and recently excavated buildings Brings together original scholarship from an esteemed group of archaeologists and art historians Presents the most up-to-date English language coverage of Greek architecture in several decades while also sketching out important areas and structures in need of further research
Download or read book Aeschylus written by Aeschylus and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Advances in Nonverbal Communication by : Fernando Poyatos
Download or read book Advances in Nonverbal Communication written by Fernando Poyatos and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical crosscultural studies of gestures from historical, communicative and sociopsychological perspectives. In addition the volume presents novel psychological and clinical studies of nonverbal behaviors in connection with, for instance, aphasias and children's experience of artificial limbs. A whole section is devoted to nonverbal communication in literature and literary translation, and a discussion of art and literature, which opens new avenues for literary analysis and a better understanding of reading as a recreational experience. A unique feature is a discussion of Nonverbal Communication Studies as an academic area (including detailed outlines of three current courses), complemented by an extensive bibliography.
Book Synopsis Advances in Non-Verbal Communication by : Fernando Poyatos
Download or read book Advances in Non-Verbal Communication written by Fernando Poyatos and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 1992-12-10 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on nonverbal communication studies, the most multi- and interdisciplinary contribution to this field in almost twenty years, offers numerous suggestions for further research in many hitherto unexplored areas. The twenty contributions include the most recent theoretical and empirical crosscultural studies of gestures from historical, communicative and sociopsychological perspectives. In addition the volume presents novel psychological and clinical studies of nonverbal behaviors in connection with, for instance, aphasias and children's experience of artificial limbs. A whole section is devoted to nonverbal communication in literature and literary translation, and a discussion of art and literature, which opens new avenues for literary analysis and a better understanding of reading as a recreational experience. A unique feature is a discussion of Nonverbal Communication Studies as an academic area (including detailed outlines of three current courses), complemented by an extensive bibliography.
