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  3. Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
April 2013
Print publication year:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781139519601
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139519601
Subjects:
Classical Theatre, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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Book description

Recent scholarship has acknowledged that the intertextual discourse of ancient comedy with previous and contemporary literary traditions is not limited to tragedy. This book is a timely response to the more sophisticated and theory-grounded way of viewing comedy's interactions with its cultural and intellectual context. It shows that in the process of its self-definition, comedy emerges as voracious and multifarious with a wide spectrum of literary, sub-literary and paraliterary traditions, the engagement with which emerges as central to its projected literary identity and, subsequently, to the reception of the genre itself. Comedy's self-definition through generic discourse far transcends the (narrowly conceived) 'high-low' division of genres. This book explores ancient comedy's interactions with Homeric and Hesiodic epic, iambos, lyric, tragedy, the fable tradition, the ritual performances of the Greek polis, and its reception in Platonic writings and Alexandrian scholarship, within a unified interpretative framework.

Reviews

'… this volume accomplishes its aims and offers an important step forward in the study of comedy's omnivorous tendencies.'

Donald Sells Source: Phoenix

‘As is bound to be the case with a volume emanating from a conference … the essays [do not] exhaust the range of traditions to which comedy turns its attention. Readers will find much of interest in them … and their combined value is to demonstrate the variegated patterns of literary subsumed within comedy and to point the way for further inquiry.’

Zachary Biles Source: De Novis Libris Iudicia

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