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Author:   Ian Ruffell (Lecturer in Classics, University of Glasgow.)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.916kg
ISBN:  

9780199587216

ISBN 10:   0199587213
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   15 December 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 Tripping over the light fantastic 1.1: Plato s comedy store 1.2: The art of the impossible 2 Possible worlds and comic fictions 2.1: Possible, impossible and fictional worlds 2.2: Illusion, fiction and make-believe 2.3: Between worlds: identification, mapping and reference 2.4: Logic, cognition and emotion 3 On eating cake: joke semiotics 3.1: Is laughter central to komoidia? 3.2: Metaphors and other jokes 3.3: Towards a theory of the joke 3.4: Summary 4 Comic motivation: jokes and episodic plot 4.1: Comic plot and narrative 4.2: Jokes in narrative 4.3: A dog s dinner: complex routines in Wasps 4.4: Episodic plot 5 Comic networks: story and argument 5.1: Comic structure 5.2: World, episode and argument: Akharnians 5.3: Jokes, concepts and comic meaning: Knights 5.4: How did we learn today? 6 Entering the metaverse: comic self-reference 6.1: Disruptive theory 6.2: Thinking the unthinkable 6.3: The limits of self-reference 6.4: Chorus and consistency 6.5: The comic multiplier 6.6: Strangely significant worlds 7 The role of the audience: ideology, identity and intensity 7.1: Constructing the audience 7.2: From worlds to stage: mapping audiences 7.3: Dionysiac worlds/festive worlds 7.4: Anti-realism, Metatheatre, and fantasy politics 8 Flights of fancy: tragic myth and comic logos 8.1: Parody, intertextuality and anti-realism 8.2: Tragic and comic possibilities 8.3: Parody, anti-realism and postmodernist poetics 9 A total write-off: continuity and competition 9.1: Comic intertextuality: iterability and innovation 9.2: The comic multiverse: world, story and plot 9.3: Comic populations: satire and stereotype 9.4: What s so funny? About Peace and comic understanding 9.5: Comic competition 10 Conclusion: politics, ideology and Old Comedy Index locorum General index

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a densely-argued study of Old Comedy. Hermathena No. 190

a densely-argued study of Old Comedy. * Hermathena No. 190 *

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Ian Ruffell has been Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow since 2001; previously a research fellow at Christ Church, Oxford (2000-01); lecturer at Wadham College, Oxford (1999-2000), and The Queen's College, Oxford (1998-9).

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