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Humor, 2014
AbstractFew theoretical statements about comic drama and fiction can match the influence of Northrop Frye's essay, “Mythos of Spring: Comedy.” Particularly for scholars interested not only in classic comic literary forms such as stage comedy, but also in the popular forms of contemporary films as well as television sitcoms, Frye's theory continues to ...
James E Caron
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AbstractFew theoretical statements about comic drama and fiction can match the influence of Northrop Frye's essay, “Mythos of Spring: Comedy.” Particularly for scholars interested not only in classic comic literary forms such as stage comedy, but also in the popular forms of contemporary films as well as television sitcoms, Frye's theory continues to ...
James E Caron
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2013
This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages.
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This collection provides an overview of the reception history of a major literary genre from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day. Looking first at Athenian comic poets and comedy in the Roman Empire, the volume goes on to discuss Greco-Roman comedy's reception throughout the ages.
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Disrupting illusion in ancient Greek comedy: a cognitive perspective
Bulletin of the Institute of Classical StudiesABSTRACT This paper applies a modern, cognitive model, the conceptual blending theory, to ancient Greek comic fragments, with the aim of shedding light on the relationships between actor and audience. The theory maintains that spectators blend an actor and his character into one new concept of identity during a performance.
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Who "Invented" Comedy? The Ancient Candidates for the Origins of Comedy and the Visual Evidence
American Journal of Philology, 2006The formal beginning of comedy is firmly dated to the Dionysia of 486 B.C.E.1 For what preceded it there were at least three ancient candidates: phallic processions, Doric comedy and Susarion. Each is supported by visual evidence of the sixth century B.C.E., each explains certain features of Old Comedy, but all have some anomalies as well. Striking is
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