The comedies of Aristophanes are known not only for their boldly
imaginative plots but for the ways in which they incorporate and
orchestrate a wide variety of literary genres and speech styles.
Unlike the writers of tragedy, who prefer a uniformly elevated
tone, Aristophanes articulates his dramatic dialogue with striking
literary and linguistic juxtapositions, producing a carnivalesque
medley of genres that continually forces both audience and reader
to readjust their perspectives. In this energetic and original
study, Charles Platter interprets the complexities of Aristophanes'
work through the lens of Mikhail Bakhtin's critical writing.
This book charts a new course for Aristophanic comedy, taking
its lead from the work of Bakhtin. Bakhtin describes the way
multiple voices -- vocabularies, tones, and styles of language
originating in different social classes and contexts -- appear and
interact within literary texts. He argues that the dynamic quality
of literature arises from the dialogic relations that exist among
these voices. Although Bakhtin applied his theory primarily to the
epic and the novel, Platter finds in his work profound implications
for Aristophanic comedy, where stylistic heterogeneity is the
genre's lifeblood.
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