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- catalog abstract "Comedy, with its happy endings, attempts to resolve conflicts that arise in the real world. These conflicts, however, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies in characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology, exploits a new and distinct critical method - ideological criticism - to analyze how ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state. Konstan begins by examining the utopian features of Aristophanes' comedies - for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of Wealth himself - as interventions in the political issues of his time. He goes on to explore the more private world of Menandrean comedy (as well as two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), illustrating how problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. Konstan closes with a chapter examining an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliere, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.".
- catalog contributor b6517336.
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "Comedy, with its happy endings, attempts to resolve conflicts that arise in the real world. These conflicts, however, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies in characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology, exploits a new and distinct critical method - ideological criticism - to analyze how ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- I. Aristophanic comedy: politics and utopia -- Wasps -- Birds -- Lysistrata -- Frogs -- Wealth -- II. Menandrean comedy: sex and status -- Grouch -- Shorn girl -- Self-tormentor -- Eunuch -- Arbitrants -- The Miser.".
- catalog description "Konstan begins by examining the utopian features of Aristophanes' comedies - for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of Wealth himself - as interventions in the political issues of his time. He goes on to explore the more private world of Menandrean comedy (as well as two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), illustrating how problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. Konstan closes with a chapter examining an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliere, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.".
- catalog extent "ix, 244 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Greek comedy and ideology.".
- catalog identifier "0195092945 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Greek comedy and ideology.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Greek comedy and ideology.".
- catalog spatial "Greece.".
- catalog subject "882/.05230901 20".
- catalog subject "Greek drama (Comedy) History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society Greece.".
- catalog subject "PA3166 .K66 1995".
- catalog subject "Political plays, Greek History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Greece.".
- catalog subject "Social problems in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- I. Aristophanic comedy: politics and utopia -- Wasps -- Birds -- Lysistrata -- Frogs -- Wealth -- II. Menandrean comedy: sex and status -- Grouch -- Shorn girl -- Self-tormentor -- Eunuch -- Arbitrants -- The Miser.".
- catalog title "Greek comedy and ideology / David Konstan.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".