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ARISTOPHANES AND THE POETICS OF SURPRISE - DIMI...

The purpose of this book is to examine the variety  the mechanisms  and the poetological
intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy  addressing the phenomenon not as a
self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre  but as an elaborate system which
characterises the style of the specific dramatist. More precisely  the book analyses
Aristophanes' most prominent verbal  thematic  and theatrical modes of surprise from a
typological perspective  and interprets them as comprising the key area in which the playwright
claims and demonstrates his artistic superiority over rival genres and individual poets. In
line with this purpose  two parallel aims of the book are to provide an original commentary on
the passages under examination  and to promote the study of modern performances - a practice
which has so far been either restricted to Classical Reception or only theoretically
acknowledged (if at all) by mainstream philological scholarship. This is a timely book on a
topic of wide current interest across a range of interlocking disciplines: emotion studies 
semiotics  narratology  information theory  and -most pertinently for this book- humour
research.

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