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  title info:
    title: Parody, politics and the populace in Greek old comedy
  name:
    name part: Sells, Donald
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This book argues that Old Comedy's parodic and non-parodic engagement with tragedy, satyr play and contemporary lyric is geared to enhancing its own status as the preeminent discourse on Athenian art, politics and society. Donald Sells locates the enduring significance of parody in the specific cultural, social and political subtexts that often frame Old Comedy's bold experiments with other genres and drive its rapid evolution in the late fifth century. Close analysis of verbal, visual and narrative strategies reveals the importance of parody and literary appropriation to the particular cultural and political agendas of specific plays. This study's broader, more flexible definition of parody as a visual, not just verbal, and multi-coded performance represents an important new step in understanding a phenomenon whose richness and diversity exceeds the primarily textual and literary terms by which it is traditionally understood.
  table of contents: Mysian Telephus and the Aristophanic brand -- Visualizing the comic -- Members only : satyrism and satire in late fifth-century comedy -- Poetic failure and comic success in Aristophanes' Peace -- Old comedy and lyric poetry -- The feminine mistake: household economy in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae.
  note: Donald Sells.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Greek drama (Comedy)
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Parody in literature
  classification: PA3161 .S455 2019
  classification: 882/.0109
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Bloomsbury classical studies monographs
  identifier: 9781350060517
  identifier: 1350060518
  identifier: 9781350060531
  identifier: 2018023339
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180515
    record change date: 20190422104857.0
    record identifier: in00004017102