THE ART OF ARISTOPHANES
M. S. Silk's main concern in "Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy" is to explore the literary greatness of Aristophanes. It is a book of enormous richness and subtlety, which combines detailed and precise analysis of language and style with discursive meditation on the nature of...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Classical review 2003-04, Vol.53 (1), p.17-19 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | M. S. Silk's main concern in "Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy" is to explore the literary greatness of Aristophanes. It is a book of enormous richness and subtlety, which combines detailed and precise analysis of language and style with discursive meditation on the nature of comedy and the comic. Reading it requires concentration and effort, but its effect is to destabilise familiar responses and make us think again about the critical assumptions we bring to the interpretation of Aristophanes' plays. (Quotes from original text) |
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| ISSN: | 0009-840X 1464-3561 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/cr/53.1.17 |