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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Biles, Zachary P. (1968-....)
Titre(s) : Aristophanes and the poetics of competition [Texte imprimé] / Zachary P. Biles
Publication : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge university press, 2011
Description matérielle : xi, 290 p. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: proagon ; 1. From Thamyris to Aristophanes: the competitive poetics
of the comic parabasis ; 2. The competitive partnership of Aristophanes and Dikaiopolis
in Acharnians ; 3. Aristophanes' poetic tropaion: competitive didaskalia and contest
records in Knights ; 4. Intertextual biography in the rivalry of Cratinus and Aristophanes
; 5. Aristophanes' Clouds-palinode ; 6. Dionysos and dionysia in Frogs.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-279) and indexes
"Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos.
Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and
impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This
book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within
which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of
Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual
plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals
the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with
other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to
place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature"
Sujet(s) : Aristophane (0445?-0386? av. J.-C.) -- Critique et interprétation
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780521764070 (hardback). - ISBN 0521764076 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb427385942
Notice n° :
FRBNF42738594
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