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Now in its second edition, this book provides a practical guide to
measured building surveys with special emphasis on recording the
fabric of historic buildings. It includes two new chapters dealing
with modern survey practice using instruments and photographic
techniques, as well as a chapter examining recording methods as
used on a specific project case study undertaken by the Museum of
London Archaeology Service. Measured surveys for producing accurate
scaled drawings of buildings and their immediate surroundings may
be undertaken for a variety of reasons. The principal ones are to
provide a historic record, and to form the base drawings upon which
a proposed programme of works involving repairs, alterations,
adaptations or extensions can be prepared. This book provides a
practical guide to preparing measured surveys of historic
buildings, with special emphasis on recording the fabric. The text
assumes little previous knowledge of surveying and begins by
describing basic measuring techniques before introducing elementary
surveying and levelling. From these principles, the practices and
techniques used to measure and record existing buildings are
developed in a detailed step-by-step approach, covering sketching,
measuring, plotting and drawing presentation. For this new edition
the text on hand survey methods has been revised to note where new
techniques and equipment can be incorporated, as well as explaining
where more advanced survey methods may be best used to advantage.
Information on locating early maps and plans, aerial photography
and its uses, documentary research, procurement of surveys and
conventional photography has been incorporated at various points as
appropriate. In addition, Ross Dallas provides two new chapters
dealing with modern survey practice using instruments and
photographic techniques. Also, the opportunity has been taken to
present a wider view of building recording projects by including a
new chapter from the Museum of London Archaeological Service
(MoLAS) building recording team. It encompasses their five key
principles for recording within an illustrative case study.
This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient
comedy - what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes'
humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of
political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy was above all
else designed to amuse people, to win the dramatic competition by
making the audience laugh the hardest. Any discussion of
Aristophanes therefore needs to take into account the ways in which
his humour actually works. This question is addressed in two ways.
The first half of the volume offers an in-depth discussion of
humour theory - a field heretofore largely overlooked by
classicists and Aristophanists - examining various theoretical
models within the specific context of Aristophanes' eleven extant
plays. In the second half, contributors explore Aristophanic humour
more practically, examining how specific linguistic techniques and
performative choices affect the reception of humour, and exploring
the range of subjects Aristophanes tackles as vectors for his
comedy. A focus on performance shapes the narrative, since humour
lives or dies on the stage - it is never wholly comprehensible on
the page alone.
This volume sets out to discuss a crucial question for ancient
comedy - what makes Aristophanes funny? Too often Aristophanes'
humour is taken for granted as merely a tool for the delivery of
political and social commentary. But Greek Old Comedy was above all
else designed to amuse people, to win the dramatic competition by
making the audience laugh the hardest. Any discussion of
Aristophanes therefore needs to take into account the ways in which
his humour actually works. This question is addressed in two ways.
The first half of the volume offers an in-depth discussion of
humour theory - a field heretofore largely overlooked by
classicists and Aristophanists - examining various theoretical
models within the specific context of Aristophanes' eleven extant
plays. In the second half, contributors explore Aristophanic humour
more practically, examining how specific linguistic techniques and
performative choices affect the reception of humour, and exploring
the range of subjects Aristophanes tackles as vectors for his
comedy. A focus on performance shapes the narrative, since humour
lives or dies on the stage - it is never wholly comprehensible on
the page alone.
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