TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Aristophanes and the poetics of surprise
T2  - Trends in classics
A1  - Kanellakis, Dimitrios, 1993- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Berlin ; Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
YR  - 2020
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5466309
AB  - The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as an elaborate system which characterises the style of the specific dramatist. More precisely, the book analyses Aristophanes? most prominent verbal, thematic, and theatrical modes of surprise from a typological perspective, and interprets them as comprising the key area in which the playwright claims and demonstrates his artistic superiority over rival genres and individual poets. In line with this purpose, two parallel aims of the book are to provide an original commentary on the passages under examination, and to promote the study of modern performances ? a practice which has so far been either restricted to Classical Reception or only theoretically acknowledged (if at all) by mainstream philological scholarship. This is a timely book on a topic of wide current interest across a range of interlocking disciplines: emotion studies, semiotics, narratology, information theory, and -most pertinently for this book- humour research.
SN  - 978-3-11-067698-3 sidottu
SN  - 3110676982 hardcover
KW  - Aristophanes : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Aristophanes.
KW  - Surprise in literature.
ER  -