Ian Ruffell
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5626286 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ian Ruffell |
| PRENOMES | Ian |
| SOBRENOME | Ruffell |
| ASSINATURA | RUFFELL I |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Churchill Hospital |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 108 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The World Turned Upside Down
Truth and History in the Ancient World
This collection of essays investigates whether the producers and consumers of histories in the ancient world believed in their stories about the past and the extent to which they were committed to their truth. Drawing from modern debates over the writing and status of history, growing interest in cultural memory, and philosophical approaches to more relaxed notions of truth, the papers revisit the truth claims of Greek historiography in the conte…
Character types
In a famous fragment of Antiphanes’ Poetry (fr. 189), a character compares the resources available to tragedy and comedy in terms of inherited characters and stories. Mention Oedipus and the audience knows what will happen to him and who the other main characters are; comedy needs to invent everything – names, back-story, situation, crisis. ‘If some Chremes or Pheidon leaves any one of these out, he's whistled off stage’ (20f.). The main focus he…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example …
The Role of The Audience
This chapter develops the study of comic self-reference by looking at direct and indirect address and manipulation of the audience. Arguing that the audience's role is a construct of the fiction, audience address and related, but less explicit, devices consolidate the audience as the male citizen body of Athens and construct a coherent audience position with which audience members can identify. Such explicit and implicit intervention extends the …
A Total Write-Off
The interactions between comic poets has been increasingly recognized in recent years. This chapter develops a model for such constructive and competitive interactions, drawing on both studies of the seriality of popular culture and the analysis of running jokes that was earlier articulated with reference to comic plot. Intertextual appropriation of comic jokes, ideas, and plots is shown to be part of an intertextual game of competitive capping w…
Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy
The collision of politics and claims of political intervention with the fantastic, absurd and impossible is characteristic of the Athenian comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE, but has proved persistently problematic for critics. This book sets the impossible centre-stage and argues that comic impossibility should not be ignored in political readings or, conversely, used as a reason for excluding comedy from political interv…
Beyond Satire
Throughout its history, Latin Satire was engaged in acts of impersonation and masquerade. While written by and for members of an élite and highly literate class, it continually affected a low style in metre and diction, an aggressive engagement with or pointed withdrawal from contemporary social realities, and the partial or wholesale adoption of an authorial voice at some rungs below the highest of society. All this is well-known and relatively …
A total write-off. Aristophanes, Cratinus, and the rhetoric of comic competition
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A total write-off. Aristophanes, Cratinus, and the rhetoric of comic competition
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Satire
Throughout its history, Latin Satire was engaged in acts of impersonation and masquerade. While written by and for members of an élite and highly literate class, it continually affected a low style in metre and diction, an aggressive engagement with or pointed withdrawal from contemporary social realities, and the partial or wholesale adoption of an authorial voice at some rungs below the highest of society. All this is well-known and relatively …
Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy
The collision of politics and claims of political intervention with the fantastic, absurd and impossible is characteristic of the Athenian comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE, but has proved persistently problematic for critics. This book sets the impossible centre-stage and argues that comic impossibility should not be ignored in political readings or, conversely, used as a reason for excluding comedy from political interv…
A total write-off. Aristophanes, Cratinus, and the rhetoric of comic competition
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Satire
Throughout its history, Latin Satire was engaged in acts of impersonation and masquerade. While written by and for members of an élite and highly literate class, it continually affected a low style in metre and diction, an aggressive engagement with or pointed withdrawal from contemporary social realities, and the partial or wholesale adoption of an authorial voice at some rungs below the highest of society. All this is well-known and relatively …
The Role of The Audience
This chapter develops the study of comic self-reference by looking at direct and indirect address and manipulation of the audience. Arguing that the audience's role is a construct of the fiction, audience address and related, but less explicit, devices consolidate the audience as the male citizen body of Athens and construct a coherent audience position with which audience members can identify. Such explicit and implicit intervention extends the …
A Total Write-Off
The interactions between comic poets has been increasingly recognized in recent years. This chapter develops a model for such constructive and competitive interactions, drawing on both studies of the seriality of popular culture and the analysis of running jokes that was earlier articulated with reference to comic plot. Intertextual appropriation of comic jokes, ideas, and plots is shown to be part of an intertextual game of competitive capping w…
Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy
The collision of politics and claims of political intervention with the fantastic, absurd and impossible is characteristic of the Athenian comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE, but has proved persistently problematic for critics. This book sets the impossible centre-stage and argues that comic impossibility should not be ignored in political readings or, conversely, used as a reason for excluding comedy from political interv…
Character types
In a famous fragment of Antiphanes’ Poetry (fr. 189), a character compares the resources available to tragedy and comedy in terms of inherited characters and stories. Mention Oedipus and the audience knows what will happen to him and who the other main characters are; comedy needs to invent everything – names, back-story, situation, crisis. ‘If some Chremes or Pheidon leaves any one of these out, he's whistled off stage’ (20f.). The main focus he…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Greek comedy flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, both in and beyond Athens. Aristophanes and Menander are the best-known writers whose work is in part extant, but many other dramatists are known from surviving fragments of their plays. This sophisticated but accessible introduction explores the genre as a whole, integrating literary questions (such as characterisation, dramatic technique or diction) with contextual ones (for example …
Truth and History in the Ancient World
This collection of essays investigates whether the producers and consumers of histories in the ancient world believed in their stories about the past and the extent to which they were committed to their truth. Drawing from modern debates over the writing and status of history, growing interest in cultural memory, and philosophical approaches to more relaxed notions of truth, the papers revisit the truth claims of Greek historiography in the conte…
The World Turned Upside Down
Classical Antiquity Studies (8 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Comedy (3 obras) · Comics (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras)