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Apostolakis, Kostas E. [Contributor]; Apostolakis, Kostas E. [Editor]; Beta, Simone [Contributor]; Kanellakis, Dimitrios [Contributor]; Konstantakos, Ioannis M. [Contributor]; Konstantakos, Ioannis M. [Editor]; Novokhatko, Anna A. [Contributor]; Olson, S. Douglas [Contributor]; Petrides, Antonis K. [Contributor]; Totaro, Piero [Contributor]; Triantafyllou, Georgios [Contributor]; Willi, Andreas [Contributor]; Zimmermann, Bernhard [Contributor]

The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy : Comic Discourse and Linguistic Artifices of Humour, from Aristophanes to Menander

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  • Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The Play of Language in Ancient Greek Comedy : Comic Discourse and Linguistic Artifices of Humour, from Aristophanes to Menander
  • Contains: Frontmatter
    Preface
    Contents
    Introduction
    Metaphors and Personifications Onstage
    Imaginary Wor(l)ds: Comic Language and the Construction of Fantasy
    A Less Maculate Muse
    Like a Rabid Dog: Animal Metaphors and Similes in Aristophanes
    The Shop of Aristophanes the Carpenter: How Comic Poets Assembled (and Disassembled) Words
    “When He Should Have Said...” The Treatment of Humour παρ’ ὑπόνοιαν in the Aristophanic Scholia
    Rhyme in Greek Comedy
    Three Words in Aristophanes’ Wealth (999, 1037, 1083)
    Spoudaiogeloion Revisited: Homeric Text between a Scholar and a Cook
    Proper Names, Nicknames, Epithets: Aspects of Comic Language in Middle Comedy
    Strategies of Verbal Humour in Menander’s Dyskolos: From Linguistics to Dramaturgy
    List of Contributors
    Index Nominum et Rerum
    Index Locorum
    Index of Notable Greek Words and Phrases
  • Contributor: Apostolakis, Kostas E. [MitwirkendeR]; Apostolakis, Kostas E. [HerausgeberIn]; Beta, Simone [MitwirkendeR]; Kanellakis, Dimitrios [MitwirkendeR]; Konstantakos, Ioannis M. [MitwirkendeR]; Konstantakos, Ioannis M. [HerausgeberIn]; Novokhatko, Anna A. [MitwirkendeR]; Olson, S. Douglas [MitwirkendeR]; Petrides, Antonis K. [MitwirkendeR]; Totaro, Piero [MitwirkendeR]; Triantafyllou, Georgios [MitwirkendeR]; Willi, Andreas [MitwirkendeR]; Zimmermann, Bernhard [MitwirkendeR]
  • imprint: Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, [2024]
  • Published in: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 154
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 437 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1515/9783111295282
  • ISBN: 9783111295282
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  • Keywords: Ancient Greek Humour ; Ancient Greek Language ; Aristophanes ; Middle and New Comedy
  • Reproduction note: Issued also in print
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  • Footnote: In English
  • Description: Ancient Greek comedy relied primarily on its text and words for the fulfilment of its humorous effects and aesthetic goals. In the wake of a rich tradition of previous scholarship, this volume explores a variety of linguistic materials and stylistic artifices exploited by the Greek comic poets, from vocabulary and figures of speech (metaphors, similes, rhyme) to types of joke, obscenity, and the mechanisms of parody. Most of the chapters focus on Aristophanes and Old Comedy, which offers the richest arsenal of such techniques, but the less ploughed fields of Middle and New Comedy are also explored. Emphasis is placed on practical criticism and textual readings, on the examination of particular artifices of speech and the analysis of individual passages. The main purpose is to highlight the use of language for the achievement of the aesthetic, artistic, and intellectual purposes of ancient comedy, in particular for the generation of humour and comic effect, the delineation of characters, the transmission of ideological messages, and the construction of poetic meaning. The volume will be useful to scholars of ancient drama, linguists, students of humour, and scholars of Classical literature in general
  • Access State: Open Access
  • Rights information: Attribution (CC BY)