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  title info:
    title: Paracomedy
    sub title: appropriations of comedy in Greek tragedy
  name:
    name part: Jendza, Craig
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 341 σ. ; 25 εκ.
  abstract: "Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes, language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory, and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of light-heartedness or humor. While the book traces the development of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes' mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic influence"--
  target audience: general
  note: Craig Jendza.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία (σ. 271-291) και ευρετήρια.
  subject:
    topic: Ελληνικό δράμα (Τραγωδία)
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Ελληνικό δράμα (Κωμωδία)
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Κωμωδία, Αρχαία
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  classification: 882.010 9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Paracomedy
    name:
      name part: Jendza, Craig,
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
    identifier: (DLC) 2019038640
  identifier: 9780190090937
  identifier: 9780190090944
  identifier: 9780190090951
  identifier: 9780190090968
  identifier: 2019038639
  record info:
    record content source: ICU/DLC
    record creation date: 190828
    record change date: 20221123111803.0
    record identifier: 21166040
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre