內容簡介TOPFOR MANY YEARS THE DOMAIN OF SPECIALISTS IN EARLY LATIN, IN COMPLEX METRES, AND IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF TEXTS, ROMAN COMEDY HAS ONLY RECENTLY BEGUN TO ESTABLISH ITSELF IN THE MAINSTREAM OF CLASSICAL LITERARY CRITICISM. WHERE MOST RECENT BOOKS STRESS THE ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE AS THE PRIMARY LOCATION FOR THE ENCOUNTERING OF THE PLAYS, THIS BOOK FINDS THE LOCUS OF MEANING AND APPRECIATION IN THE ACTIVITY OF A READER, ALBEIT ONE WHOSE MANNER OF READING NECESSARILY INVOLVES THE IMAGINATIVE RECONSTRUCTION OF PERFORMANCE. THE TEXTS ARE TREATED, AND CELEBRATED, AS LITERARY DEVICES, WITH PROGRAMMATIC BEGINNINGS, MIDDLES, ENDS, AND INTERTEXTS. ALL THE EXTANT PLAYS OF PLAUTUS AND TERENCE HAVE AT LEAST A BIT PART IN THIS BOOK, WHICH SEEKS TO EXPOSE THE AUTHORS’ FABULOUS ARTIFICIALITY AND ARTIFICE, WHILE PLAYING ALONG WITH THEIR DIFFERING BUT INTERRELATED POSES OF GENERIC HUMILITY.
作者:Shanley, John Patrick出版社:Consortium Book Sales & Dist 出版日期:2008年12月01日 語言:英文 ISBN:9781559363471裝訂:平裝內容簡介topNow a major motion picture! Starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and...
作者:Euripides/ Morwood, James (TRN)出版社:Oxford Univ Pr 出版日期:2009年02月15日 語言:英文 ISBN:9780199537969裝訂:平裝內容簡介topEuripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, an ...
作者:Murphy, John出版社:Northwestern Univ Pr 出版日期:2008年09月01日 語言:英文 ISBN:9780889225954裝訂:平裝內容簡介topThe Heretic began with a rhetorical question the author posed to himself for a comedy show: " ...