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Language of Greek Comedy

Andreas Willi
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      The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in 5th-century Athens, linguistic characterization in Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics and textual criticism) should ensure that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Andreas Willi EAN: 9780199245475 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 513 g HEIGHT: 224 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-10-03 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 146 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient (Classical) Greek, BCE period – Protohistory, Linguistics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Andreas Willi is Research Assistant in Classics, University of Basel, Switzerland
      The contributions to this volume illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. Topics discussed include the relationship of comedy and iambus, the world of Doric comedy in Sicily, figures of speech and obscene vocabulary in Aristophanes, comic elements in tragedy, language and cultural identity in 5th-century Athens, linguistic characterization in Middle Comedy, the textual transmission of New Comedy and the interaction of language and dramatic technique in Menander. Research in these topics and in related areas is reviewed in an extensive bibliographical essay While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted (including narratology, pragmatics, lexicology, dialectology, sociolinguistics and textual criticism) should ensure that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Andreas Willi EAN: 9780199245475 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 513 g HEIGHT: 224 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-10-03 CITY: GENRE: DRAMA / Ancient & Classical, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical WIDTH: 146 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient (Classical) Greek, BCE period – Protohistory, Linguistics, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: plays and playwrights

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      Andreas Willi is Research Assistant in Classics, University of Basel, Switzerland

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