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"What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature? Taking the theories and methodologies of stylistics as its underlying analytical framework, Reading the Absurd tackles each of these…
Challenges traditional scholarship on absurdist literature, privileging the reader and the genre's stylistic achievements. What is the literary absurd? What are its key textual features? How can it be analysed? How do different readers respond to absurdist literature?Taking the …
"First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absurd, it goes on to examine a number of key figures in the movement such as Esslin…
"First published in 1969, provides a helpful introduction to the study of Absurdist writing and drama in the first half of the twentieth century. After discussing a variety of definitions of the Absurd, it goes on to examine a number of key figures in the movement such as Esslin…
The comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE was typified by the combination of absurd and fantastic plots often dealing with social and political issues of the day. This study puts these elements centre-stage and argues that it was through them that the comedy…
The comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE was typified by the combination of absurd and fantastic plots often dealing with social and political issues of the day. This study puts these elements centre-stage and argues that it was through them that the comedy…
Politics and anti-realism in Athenian old comedy
by Ruffell, Ian
fromOxford classical monographs
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The comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE was typified by the combination of absurd and fantastic plots often dealing with social and political issues of the day. This study puts these elements centre-stage and argues that it was through them that the comedy…
"The collision of politics and claims of political intervention with the fantastic, absurd, and impossible is characteristic of the Athenian comic drama of the late fifth and early fourth century BCE, and has proved persistently problematic for critics. This book sets the imposs…
