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Paracomedy - Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Paracomedy - Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover)
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Paracomedy: Appropriations of Comedy in Greek Drama is the first
book that examines how ancient Greek tragedy engages with the genre
of comedy. While scholars frequently study paratragedy (how Greek
comedians satirize tragedy), this book investigates the previously
overlooked practice of paracomedy: how Greek tragedians regularly
appropriate elements from comedy such as costumes, scenes,
language, characters, or plots. Drawing upon a wide variety of
complete and fragmentary tragedies and comedies (Aeschylus,
Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Rhinthon), this monograph
demonstrates that paracomedy was a prominent feature of Greek
tragedy. Blending a variety of interdisciplinary approaches
including traditional philology, literary criticism, genre theory,
and performance studies, this book offers innovative close readings
and incisive interpretations of individual plays. Jendza presents
paracomedy as a multivalent authorial strategy: some instances
impart a sense of ugliness or discomfort; others provide a sense of
light-heartedness or humor. While this work traces the development
of paracomedy over several hundred years, it focuses on a handful
of Euripidean tragedies at the end of the fifth century BCE. Jendza
argues that Euripides was participating in a rivalry with the
comedian Aristophanes and often used paracomedy to demonstrate the
poetic supremacy of tragedy; indeed, some of Euripides' most
complex uses of paracomedy attempt to re-appropriate Aristophanes'
mockery of his theatrical techniques. Paracomedy: Appropriations of
Comedy in Greek Tragedy theorizes a new, ground-breaking
relationship between Greek tragedy and comedy that not only
redefines our understanding of the genre of tragedy, but also
reveals a dynamic theatrical world filled with mutual cross-generic
influence.
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