Talking about Laughter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9298118 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan H Sommerstein (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 343 |
| Publication date | 2009-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Talking about laughter and other studies in Greek comedy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199554195.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2502369695 |
| Open Library | OL23621603M |
| ISBN | 9780199554195 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
This book brings together fourteen studies on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print while others were published (between 1980 and 2005) in out-of-the-way journals, collections, or conference volumes. They appear here as originally written, but are accompanied by updating addenda. They cover a wide range of topics—the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole. Aristophanes comes across as a poet committed to the spirit of seeking enjoyment for oneself and others, as inclusively as possible, believing that nothing was beyond imagination, that no one was contemptible save those who chose to make themselves so, that everything which could be seen, felt and experienced was of interest and could generate happiness through laughter, that we are what our past has made us, but that our nature also impels us to reach out for an ideal future
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Chose · Comedy · Comics · Epistemology · Euphemism · Happiness · Ideal (ethics · Laughter · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Nothing · Political science · Politics · Silence · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Aristophanes · Criticism and interpretation · Greek drama (Comedy) · Greek literature · Greek literature, history and criticism · History and criticism
Aspasia
Laughter
Fourth-century comedy before Menander
Performing gender in Greek Old and New Comedy
Epicharmus and early Sicilian comedy
The rivals of Aristophanes and Menander
Character types
Comedy and Athenian festival culture
Snapshots of Aristophanes and Menander
Comedy and Athenian law
Attic comedy in the rhetorical and moralising traditions
The politics of Greek comedy
Dramatic technique and Athenian comedy
Contexts of reception in antiquity
The reception of Greek comedy in Rome
The Greek ‘comic hero’
Theiconography of comedy
Divinity and religious practice
Roosters, Cockfighting, and Performing Masculinity in Aristophanes's Plays
Ismene’s Hat
The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy
Aristophanes in the Apology of Socrates
Aristophanes in Greek shadow theatre
Aristophanes vs Typhon
The Structure of Mythological Old Comedy
The Herald of Hyllus? Identifying the Υλλου Πενεστης in Euripides' Heraclidae
Varieties of Greek
Sex Can Kill
Theopompus’ Homer
| Unique citing works | 29 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |