In this book Professor Silk presents a radically new critical study of Aristophanes. Through an exploration of Aristophanes' comic poetry, informed by a wide range of theory from Kierkegaard to Adorno, a particular consideration of Aristophanes' own understanding of his medium, and challenging comparisons with modern literature, this book adds a new chapter to the long-standing debate about the nature and potentialities of comedy.
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"Unrivalled for its originality and excellence. This study puts flesh--indeed muscles--on the bones of the numerous other studies of the so-called Old Comedy which appeared during the last decade of the previous century. None matches the imagination, breadth and depth of Silk's study."--Erich Segal, Times Literary Supplement
"This is a valuable book. Silk has made us think about a number of important points, the uniqueness of Aristophanes, the astonishing versatility of his comic genius, the very nature of comedy itself and its symbiotic relationship with tragedy. Most valuable of all is the light that Silk sheds on Aristophanes' words and expressions."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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M. S. Silk is Professor of Greek Language and Literature at King's College in the University of London
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recreative characters, low lyric, hybrid lyrics, phallic song, high lyrics, tragic language, comic competition, unformed world, high verse, comic poetry, talk affairs, devotional lyrics, vel sim, differential stability, old chorus, comic drama, comic theory, private peace, high poetry, sympathetic emotions, multiple compounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Comedy, Jean Paul, New York, Maculate Muse, Northrop Frye, Old Comedies, Woody Allen, Lord Prick, Reading Greek Tragedy, Ste Croix, Aristotle's Poetics, Birth of Tragedy, Edward Lear, Old Oligarch, Anna Karenina, Dramatic Theory, Ezra Pound, Greek Metre, Henry James, Lyric Metres, Tin Pan Alley, Chapel Hill, Mister Prick, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Palintonos Harmoma New!
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CARIO Zeus and you other gods, how hard it is To be the slave of a demented master. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
recreative characters, low lyric, hybrid lyrics, phallic song, high lyrics, tragic language, comic competition, unformed world, high verse, comic poetry, talk affairs, devotional lyrics, vel sim, differential stability, old chorus, comic drama, comic theory, private peace, high poetry, sympathetic emotions, multiple compounds Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Comedy, Jean Paul, New York, Maculate Muse, Northrop Frye, Old Comedies, Woody Allen, Lord Prick, Reading Greek Tragedy, Ste Croix, Aristotle's Poetics, Birth of Tragedy, Edward Lear, Old Oligarch, Anna Karenina, Dramatic Theory, Ezra Pound, Greek Metre, Henry James, Lyric Metres, Tin Pan Alley, Chapel Hill, Mister Prick, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Palintonos Harmoma New!
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- Aristophanic Comedy by K. J. Dover on 10 pages
- The Birth of Tragedy (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 6 pages
- On Humor (Study in Comparative Literature) by Luigi Pirandello on 6 pages
- The Waste Land and Other Writings (Modern Library Classics) by T.S. Eliot on 4 pages
- Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett on 4 pages
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- Shakespeare and the Classics by Charles Martindale on page 254, and page 256
- Euripides: Herakles (Duckworth Companions to Greek & Roman Tragedy) by Emma Griffiths in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Alexandria, Real and Imagined (Publications for the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London) by Anthony Hirst in Front Matter, and page 372
- Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics by Gregory Dobrov in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Passions in Play: Thyestes and the Dynamics of Senecan Drama by Alessandro Schiesaro in Back Matter
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