Author : Catherine Larson
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838751800
This study illustrates how a focus on language, which is manifest in so much of contemporary literary theory, can help to open some of the canonical texts of Spanish Golden Age theater to new readings.
Author : Fred Miller Robinson
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 19,2 MB
Release : 1980
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Author : Catherine Larson
Publisher :
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611480658
This study illustrates how a focus on language, which is manifest in so much of contemporary literary theory, can help to open some of the canonical texts of Spanish Golden Age theater to new readings.
Author : Susan Paun De García
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 33,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781855661691
"The bringing of Spanish seventeenth-century verse plays to the contemporary English-speaking stage involves a number of fundamental questions. Are verse translations preferable to prose, and if so, what kind of verse? To what degree should translations aim to be 'faithful'? Which kinds of plays 'work', and which do not? Which values and customs of the past present no difficulties for contemporary audiences, and which need to be decoded in performance?Which kinds of staging are suitable, and which are not? To what degree, if any, should one aim for 'authenticity' in staging? In this volume, a group of translators, directors, and scholars explores these and related questions."--Jacket
Author : Evangelos Karakasis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2005-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 113944445X
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores Terence's use of language to differentiate his characters and his language in relation to the language of the comic fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. Linguistic categories in the Terentian corpus explored include colloquialisms, archaisms, hellenisms and idiolectal features. Terence is shown to give his old men an old-fashioned and verbose tone, while low characters are represented as using colloquial diction. An examination of Eunuchus' language shows it to be closer to the Plautine linguistic tradition. The book also provides a thorough linguistic/stylistic commentary on all the fragments of the palliata, the togata and the atellana. It shows that Terence, except in the case of his Eunuchus, consciously distances himself from the linguistic/stylistic tradition of Plautus followed by all other comic poets.
Author : Alison Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1134701721
This work examines the importance of the social context for humour and explores the issue of gender and humour in areas such as the New Lad culture in comedy. The book also includes comic transcripts from TV sketches such as Clive Anderson.
Author : Andreas Willi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199245479
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 fifth-century Athens, linguistic characterizationin 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) ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
Author : Peter Barrios-Lech
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,45 MB
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1107129826
A comprehensive account of features of Latin that emerge from dialogue, drawing on the data from Roman comedy and drama.
Author : Adolf Paul
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 12,21 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780483724051
Excerpt from The Language of the Birds: A Comedy Abishag (raises her veil). O Lord and Master, thy brow IS furrowed, thine eyes are full of trouble! (goes up to him.) What presseth upon thy soul, what maketh thy breast to heave in anguish? (sits down beside him.) Why do thy lips breathe bitterness, instead of smiling lovingly toward me? Did not my kisses gladden thee? Wert thou not happy in my love? Say, art thou weary of me already? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 1992
Category : 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.
