ENGLISH

Aristophanes and the Comic Hero

By Cedric H. Whitman

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
1964
ISBN
0674045009, 9780674045002
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
27 MB (28048609 bytes)
Series
Martin Classical Lectures 19
Pages
xvi+336\353
Topic
Literature Literary
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2016-05-05 15:47:01
Drama;Genres & Styles;History & Criticism;Literatu

Description

Normally one is chary of saying such a thing about a critical work, however distinguished the author; the more one looks down the long perspective of literary studies, the more one feels how much of what we are inclined to think of as the shattering discovery of our own generation is really the common insight of the ages, differently phrased to fit the fashion. But Professor Whitman offers something unattempted, so far as I know, from antiquity to the present day, and that is a full and systematic study of Aristophanes, not as a source for late fifth-century history and antiquities, nor as a document in the history of drama, nor as a pure spring of Attic vocabulary and syntax, but as a poet; a comic poet.

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