Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece - Couverture souple

 
9780801867354: Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece
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ISBN 10 : 0801867355 ISBN 13 : 9780801867354
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Poetry in archaic and classical Greece was a practical art that arose from specific social or political circumstances. The interpretation of a poem or dramatic work must therefore be viewed in the context of its performance. In Poetry, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, Lowell Edmunds and Robert W. Wallace bring together a distinguished group of contributors to reconstruct the performance context of a wide array of works, including epic, tragedy, lyric, elegy, and proverb. Analyzing the passage in the Odyssey in which a collective delirium comes over the suitors, Giulio Guidorizzi reveals how the poet describes a scene that lies outside the narrative themes and diction of epic. Antonio Aloni offers a reading of Simonides' elegy for the Greeks who fell at Plataea. Lowell Edmunds interprets the so-called seal of Theognis as lying on a borderline between the performed and the textual. Taking up proverbs, maxims, and apothegms, Joseph Russo examines "the performance of wisdom." Charles Segal focuses on the unusual role played by the chorus in Euripides' Bacchae. Reading the plot of Euripides' Ion, Thomas Cole concludes that the task of constructing the meaning of the play is to some extent delegated to the public. Robert Wallace describes the "performance" of the Athenian audience and provides a catalog of good and bad behavior: whistling, shouting, and throwing objects of every kind. Finally, Maria Grazia Bonanno stresses the importance of performance in lyric poetry.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lowell Edmunds is an emeritus professor of classics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His books include Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry and Poet, Public, and Performance in Ancient Greece, both published by Johns Hopkins.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801867355
ISBN 13 
9780801867354
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Éditeur
Edmunds Prof Lowell
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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ISBN 10 :  0801855756 ISBN 13 :  9780801855757
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
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