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100 1 $aKonstan, David.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82162161
245 10 $aGreek comedy and ideology /$cDavid Konstan.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1995.
263 $a9501
300 $aix, 244 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-234) and index.
505 0 $aI. Aristophanic Comedy: Politics and Utopia. 1. Wasps. 2. Birds. 3. Lysistrata. 4. Frogs. 5. Wealth -- II. Menandrean Comedy: Sex and Status. 6. Grouch. 7. Shorn Girl. 8. Self-Tormentor. 9. Eunuch. 10. Arbitrants. 11. The Miser.
520 $aComedy, with its happy endings, attempts to resolve conflicts that arise in the real world. These conflicts, however, leave their mark on the texts in the form of gaps in plot and inconsistencies in characterization. Greek Comedy and Ideology, exploits a new and distinct critical method - ideological criticism - to analyze how ancient Greek comedy betrays and responds to cultural tensions in the society of the classical city-state.
520 8 $aKonstan begins by examining the utopian features of Aristophanes' comedies - for example, an all-powerful city inhabited by birds, or a world of limitless wealth presided over by the god of Wealth himself - as interventions in the political issues of his time.
520 8 $aHe goes on to explore the more private world of Menandrean comedy (as well as two adaptations of Menander by the Roman playwright Terence), illustrating how problems of social status, citizenship, and gender are negotiated by means of elaborately contrived plots. Konstan closes with a chapter examining an imitation of ancient comedy by Moliere, and the way in which the ideology of emerging capitalism transforms the premises of the classical genre.
650 0 $aGreek drama (Comedy)$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105398
650 0 $aPolitical plays, Greek$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107222
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zGreece.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010107223
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zGreece.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107032
650 0 $aSocial problems in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85123990
852 00 $bglx$hPA3166$i.K66 1995