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Greek Comedy and Embodied Scholarly Discourse (Hardcover)
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Greek Comedy and Embodied Scholarly Discourse (Hardcover)
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Comedy created a joyful mode of perceiving rhetoric, grammar, and
literary criticism through the somatic senses of the author, the
characters, the actors and the spectators. This was due to generic
peculiarities including the omnivore mirroring of contemporary
(scholarly) ideas, the materiality of costumes and masks, and the
embodiment of abstract notions on stage, in short due to the
correspondence between body, language and environment. The
materiality of words, letters and syllables in ancient grammar and
stylistic criticism is related to the embodied criticism found in
Greek comedy. How are scholarly discourses embodied? The act of
writing is vividly enacted on stage through carving with effort the
shape of the letter 'rho' and commenting emotionally on it. The
letters of the alphabet are danced by the chorus, the cognitive and
communicative power of gestures and body expression providing
emotional context. A barking pickle brine from Thasos is perhaps an
olfactory somatosensory visual and auditory embodiment of
Archilochean poetry, whilst the actor's foot in dance is a visual
and motor embodiment of a metrical foot on stage. Comedy with its
actors, costumes, masks, and props is overflowing with such
examples. In this book, the author suggests that comedy made a
significant contribution to the establishment of scholarly
discourses in Classical Greece.
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