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02269aam a2200301Ki 4500 001 EFB16714B05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200617010021 008 191015s2020 gw b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9783110676983 020 $a 3110676982 035 $a (OCoLC)1122920509 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDXIT $d SILO 050 4 $a PA3879 $b .K36 2020 082 04 $a 882.01 $2 23 100 1 $a Kanellakis, Dimitrios, $e author. 245 10 $a Aristophanes and the poetics of surprise / $c Dimitrios Kanellakis. 264 1 $a Berlin ; $b De Gruyter, $c [2020] 300 $a viii,,247 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Trends in Classics. Supplementary volumes ; $v volume 96 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 520 8 $a The purpose of this book is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as an elaborate system which characterises the style of the specific dramatist. More precisely, the book analyses Aristophanes? most prominent verbal, thematic, and theatrical modes of surprise from a typological perspective, and interprets them as comprising the key area in which the playwright claims and demonstrates his artistic superiority over rival genres and individual poets. In line with this purpose, two parallel aims of the book are to provide an original commentary on the passages under examination, and to promote the study of modern performances ? a practice which has so far been either restricted to Classical Reception or only theoretically acknowledged (if at all) by mainstream philological scholarship. This is a timely book on a topic of wide current interest across a range of interlocking disciplines: emotion studies, semiotics, narratology, information theory, and -most pertinently for this book- humour research. 600 00 $a Aristophanes $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Surprise in literature. 830 0 $a Trends in classics. $p Supplementary volumes ; $v v. 96. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022543.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EFB16714B05F11EA86A2D96D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search