Greek Comedy and Ideology
by David Konstan
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like new/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0195092945
- ISBN 13
- 9780195092943
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About This Item
Oxford University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Like new/Very good. Like new hardcover navy blue cloth on boards and silver lettering to boards. Very good dust jacket with a small 0.25 cm closed tear at the top of the rear cover. 8vo. (9.55 x 6.35 x 0.8 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Includes notes, references and an index. 244 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. It explores the utopian vision of Aristophanes' comedies--for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of wealth himself--as interventions in the political issues of his time. David Konstan goes on to examine the more private world of Menandrean comedy (including two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), in which problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. In conclusion, Konstan looks at an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliére, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. In comedy, happy endings resolve real-world conflicts. These conflicts, in turn, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies of characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology analyzes how the structure of ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. It explores the utopian vision of Aristophanes' comedies--for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of wealth himself--as interventions in the political issues of his time. David Konstan goes on to examine the more private world of Menandrean comedy (including two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), in which problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. In conclusion, Konstan looks at an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliére, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.
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- Bookseller
- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200631
- Title
- Greek Comedy and Ideology
- Author
- David Konstan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0195092945
- ISBN 13
- 9780195092943
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Keywords
- Classical literature, satire, story structure,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greece; Classical Literature;
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