Performance and culture in Plato's "Laws"
This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, 'the Laws'. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, 'the Laws' represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and unde…
"With a particular focus on the experiences a learner must go through in developing philsophical understanding, the book argues that a reader's experience can be parallel in kind and value to that of the interlocutors we see conversing in the dialogues."--Couverture.
Plato's "Sophist": the Drama of Original and Image
"Experimentation with the speech of characters has been hailed by Gerard Genette as "one of the main paths of emancipation in the modern novel." Dialogue as a stylistic and narrative device is a key feature in the development of the novel as a genre, yet it is also a phenomenon …
"With chapters on social media, videogames and human-machine communication, Dialogue across Media provides a comprehensive overview of the role of dialogue in contemporary media. Drawing on the expertise of scholars and practitioners from multiple fields and disciplines, includi…
"Plato's philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre. Plato borrows from, as well as rejects, earlier and contemporary authors, and he is constantly in conversation with established genres, such as tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, and rhetoric in a variety o…
"Plato's philosophical dialogues can be seen as his creation of a new genre. Plato borrows from, as well as rejects, earlier and contemporary authors, and he is constantly in conversation with established genres, such as tragedy, comedy, lyric poetry, and rhetoric in a variety o…
