The contributions to this volume by a team of international experts illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
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The contributions to this volume by a team of international experts illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. While the main focus is on comedy, the diversity of the approaches adopted ensures that much of the work applies to different genres and is relevant also to linguists and literary scholars.
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Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 0199245479. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover. Light bumping to corners. Minor shelfwear. Dustjacket has minor shelfwear and rubbing.; 356 pages; The contributions to this volume by a team of international experts illustrate how the linguistic study of Greek comedy can deepen our knowledge of the intricate connections between the dramatic texts and their literary and socio-cultural environment. The language of Greek comedy: introduction and bibliographic sketch / Andreas Willi--Ionian Iambos and Attic Komoidia: father and daughter, or just cousins? / Ewen Bowie--The language of Doric comedy / Albio C. Cassio--Some evaluative terms in Aristophanes / Kenneth Dover--Figures of speech in Aristophanes / Simon R. Slings--Languages on stage: Aristophanic language, cultural history, and Athenian identity / Andreas Willi--Comic elements in tragic language: the case of Aeschylus' Oresteia / Alan H. Sommerstein--Mageiros Poietes: language and character in Antiphanes / Gregory W. Dobrov--Some orthographical variants in the papyri of later Greek comedy / W. Geoffrey Arnott--Speech within speech in Menander / René Nünlist.
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