Craig Jendza
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634745 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Craig Jendza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Craig |
| FAMILY NAME | Jendza |
| SIGNATURE | JENDZA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dimitrios Kanellakis
Para Prosdokian and the Comic Bit in Aristophanes
This article bridges a gap in the study of Aristophanic humour by better demonstrating how individual jokes (in this case, the para prosdokian ‘contrary to expectation’ joke) contribute to the wider comic scenes in which they are embedded. After analysing ancient and modern explanations and examples of para prosdokian jokes, this paper introduces the concept of ‘comic bit’, a discrete unit of comedy that builds humour around a central premise, an…
Paracomedy
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 …
Bearing Razors and Swords
In this article, I trace a nuanced interchange between Euripides’ Helen , Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae , and Euripides’ Orestes that contains a previously overlooked example of Aristophanic paratragedy and Euripides’ paracomic response. I argue that the escape plot from Helen , in which Menelaus and Helen flee with “sword-bearing” men (ξιφηφόρος), was co-opted in Thesmophoriazusae , when Aristophanes staged Euripides escaping with a man descri…
Supplemental Persuasive Analogies in PGM V.70–95
This analysis of PGM V. 70 - 95 suggests that the persuasive analogy at the heart of the spell, “let the eye of the thief be struck and let it swell up until it betrays him”, is reinforced by a system of supplemental persuasive analogies, consisting of similar transformations in the magical ingredients (materia magica), the syllables of the incantation (voces magicae), and the graphic arrangement of magical vowels (carmina figurata). By comparing…
Paracomedy
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 …
Supplemental Persuasive Analogies in PGM V.70–95
This analysis of PGM V. 70 - 95 suggests that the persuasive analogy at the heart of the spell, “let the eye of the thief be struck and let it swell up until it betrays him”, is reinforced by a system of supplemental persuasive analogies, consisting of similar transformations in the magical ingredients (materia magica), the syllables of the incantation (voces magicae), and the graphic arrangement of magical vowels (carmina figurata). By comparing…
Bearing Razors and Swords
In this article, I trace a nuanced interchange between Euripides’ Helen , Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae , and Euripides’ Orestes that contains a previously overlooked example of Aristophanic paratragedy and Euripides’ paracomic response. I argue that the escape plot from Helen , in which Menelaus and Helen flee with “sword-bearing” men (ξιφηφόρος), was co-opted in Thesmophoriazusae , when Aristophanes staged Euripides escaping with a man descri…
Paracomedy
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 …
Dimitrios Kanellakis
Para Prosdokian and the Comic Bit in Aristophanes
This article bridges a gap in the study of Aristophanic humour by better demonstrating how individual jokes (in this case, the para prosdokian ‘contrary to expectation’ joke) contribute to the wider comic scenes in which they are embedded. After analysing ancient and modern explanations and examples of para prosdokian jokes, this paper introduces the concept of ‘comic bit’, a discrete unit of comedy that builds humour around a central premise, an…
Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Comedy (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)