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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: comic body in ancient Greek theatre and art, 440-320 BCE
  name:
    name part: Piqueux, Alexa
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: συγγραφέας
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 363 σ. : εικ. ; 25 εκ.
  abstract: Using both textual and iconographic sources, this richly illustrated book examines the representations of the body in Greek Old and Middle Comedy, how it was staged, perceived, and imagined, particularly in Athens, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. The study also aims to refine knowledge of the various connections between Attic comedy and comic vases from South Italy and Sicily (the so-called 'phlyax vases').0After introducing comic texts and comedy-related vase-paintings in the regional contexts, The Comic Body in Ancient Greek Theatre and Art, 440-320 BCE considers the generic features of the comic body, characterized as it is by a specific ugliness and a constant motion. It also explores how costumes -masks, padding, phallus, clothing, accessories- and gestures contribute to the characters' visual identity in relation with speech : it analyzes the cultural, social, aesthetic, and theatrical conventions by which spectators decipher the body. This study thus leads to a re-examination of the modalities of comic mimesis, in particular when addressing sexual codes in cross-dressing scenes which reveal the artifice of the fictional body. It also sheds light on how comic poets make use of the scenic or imaginary representations of the bodies of those who are targets of political, social, or intellectual satire. There is a particular emphasis on body movements, where the book not only deals with body language and the dramatic function of comic gesture, but also with how words confer a kind of poetic and unreal motion to the body.
  target audience: general
  note: Alexa Piqueux.
  note: Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία και ευρετήριο.
  subject:
    topic: Τέχνη, Αρχαία
    topic: Ελλάδα
  subject:
    topic: Κεραμική, Ελληνική(Αρχαία)
  subject:
    topic: Κωμικό, Το, στην τέχνη
  subject:
    topic: Κωμικό, Το, στη λογοτεχνία
  subject:
    topic: Ελληνικό δράμα (Κωμωδία)
    topic: Ιστορία και κριτική
  subject:
    topic: Σώμα, Ανθρώπινο, στη λογοτεχνία
  subject:
    topic: Σώμα, Ανθρώπινο στην τέχνη
  classification: 882.2
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation
  identifier: 0192845543
  identifier: 9780192845542
  identifier: 2022931625
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 240610
    record change date: 20240610114331.0
    record identifier: 22398862
    language of cataloging:
      language term: gre