Rhetoric Comedy And The Violence Of Language In Aristophanes Clouds
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Author | : Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Comedy |
ISBN | : 0195070178 |
This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos--explored in the comic mode, and connected with the intentions and vicissitudes of the first and second Clouds.
Author | : Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan |
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Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1990 |
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Author | : Daphne E. O'Regan |
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Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Daphne O'Regan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 1992-10-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195361458 |
This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos--explored in the comic mode, and connected with the intentions and vicissitudes of the first and second Clouds.
Author | : Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan |
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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1988 |
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Author | : Stephen E. Kidd |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107050154 |
This book employs the concept of 'nonsense' to explore those parts of Greek comedy perceived as 'just silly' and therefore 'not meaningful'.
Author | : Mario Telò |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2016-04-18 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 022630972X |
The Greek playwright Aristophanes (active 427–386 BCE) is often portrayed as the poet who brought stability, discipline, and sophistication to the rowdy theatrical genre of Old Comedy. In this groundbreaking book, situated within the affective turn in the humanities, Mario Telò explores a vital yet understudied question: how did this view of Aristophanes arise, and why did his popularity eventually eclipse that of his rivals? Telò boldly traces Aristophanes’s rise, ironically, to the defeat of his play Clouds at the Great Dionysia of 423 BCE. Close readings of his revised Clouds and other works, such as Wasps, uncover references to the earlier Clouds, presented by Aristophanes as his failed attempt to heal the audience, who are reflected in the plays as a kind of dysfunctional father. In this proto-canonical narrative of failure, grounded in the distinctive feelings of different comic modes, Aristophanic comedy becomes cast as a prestigious object, a soft, protective cloak meant to shield viewers from the debilitating effects of competitors’ comedies and restore a sense of paternal responsibility and authority. Associations between afflicted fathers and healing sons, between audience and poet, are shown to be at the center of the discourse that has shaped Aristophanes’s canonical dominance ever since.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780872205161 |
This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy features an introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes further distinguished this edition of a play famous for its caricature of Socrates and of the 'new learning'.
Author | : Fiona Harris Ramsby |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 2020-12-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1000298957 |
Through a fusion of narrative and analysis, Language and Power on the Rhetorical Stage examines how theater can enact critical discourse analysis, and how micro-instances of iniquitous language use have been politically and historically reiterated to oppress and deny equal rights to marginalized groups of people. Drawing from Aristophanes' rhetorical plays as a template for rhetoric in action, the author poses the stage as a rhetorical site whereby we can observe, see, and feel 20th-century rhetorical theories of the body. Using critical discourse analysis and Judith Butler’s theories of the performative body as a methodological and analytical lens, the book explores how a handful of American plays in the latter part of the 20th century – the works of Tony Kushner, Suzan Lori-Parks, and John Cameron Mitchell, among others – use rhetoric in order to perform and challenge marginalizing language about groups who are not offered center stage in public and political spheres. This innovative study initiates a conversation long overdue between scholars in rhetorical and performance studies; as such, it will be essential reading for academic researchers and graduate students in the areas of rhetorical studies, performance studies, theatre studies, and critical discourse analysis.
Author | : Michael John MacDonald |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199731594 |
Featuring roughly sixty specially commissioned essays by an international cast of leading rhetoric experts from North America, Europe, and Great Britain, the Handbook will offer readers a comprehensive topical and historical survey of the theory and practice of rhetoric from ancient Greece and Rome through the Middle Ages and Enlightenment up to the present day.