Jokes in Greek Comedy (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
192
Utgivningsdatum
2023-10-19
Förlag
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 13 mm
Vikt
449 g
ISBN
9781350248489

Jokes in Greek Comedy

From Puns to Poetics

av Naomi Scott
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2023-10-19
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In ancient Greek comedy, nothing is ever 'just a joke'. This book treats jokes with the seriousness they deserve, and shows that far from being mere surface-level phenomena, jokes in Greek comedy are in fact a site of poetic experimentation whose creative force expressly rivals that of serious literature. Focusing on the fragments of authors including Cratinus, Pherecrates, and Archippus alongside the extant plays of Aristophanes, Naomi Scott argues that jokes are critical to comedy's engagement with the language and convention of poetic representation. More than this, she suggests that jokes and poetry share a kind of kinship as two modes of utterance which specifically set out to flout the rules of ordinary speech. Starting with bad puns, and taking in crude slapstick, vulgar innuendo and frivolous absurdism, Jokes in Greek Comedy demonstrates that the apparently inconsequential jokes which pepper the surface of Greek comedy in fact amplify the impossible and defamiliarizing qualities of standard poetic practice, and reveal the fundamental ridiculousness of treating make-believe as a serious endeavour. In this way, jokes form a central part of Greek comedy's contestation of the role of language, and particularly poetic language, in the truthful representation of reality.
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Naomi Scott is A.G. Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol, UK.

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