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1 online resource (xi, 321 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
The W.B. Stanford memorial lectures
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W.B. Stanford memorial lectures.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-307) and index. |
Contents |
Art and artifice -- Beginnings -- Plotting and playwrights -- Repeat performance -- Endings. |
Summary |
"For many years the domain of specialists in early Latin, in complex metres and in the reconstruction of texts, Roman comedy has only recently begun to establish itself in the mainstream of classical literary criticism. Where most recent books stress the original performance as the primary location for the encountering of the plays, this book finds the locus of meaning and appreciation in the activity of a reader, albeit one whose manner of reading necessarily involves the imaginative reconstruction of performance. The texts are treated, and celebrated, as literary devices, with programmatic beginnings, middles, ends and intertexts. All the extant plays of Plautus and Terence have at least a bit-part in this book, which seeks to expose the authors' fabulous artificiality and artifice, while playing along with their differing but interrelated poses of generic humility."--Jacket. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Plautus, Titus Maccius -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Plautus, Titus Maccius. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Terence -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Terence. |
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Comédie de Genève. |
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Latin drama (Comedy) -- History and criticism.
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Latin drama (Comedy) |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Sharrock, Alison. Reading Roman comedy. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521761819 |
ISBN |
9780511635137 (electronic book) |
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0511635133 (electronic book) |
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0521761816 (hardback) |
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9780521761819 (hardback) |
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9780511631771 (e-book) |
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0511631774 (e-book) |
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9780511635588 (electronic book) |
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0511635583 (electronic book) |
Standard No. |
9786612336829 |
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