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Aristophanes and the carnival of genres.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
From: Reference & Research Book News
Date: 20071101
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Aristophanes and the carnival of genres.
Platter, Charles.
Johns Hopkins U. Press
2007
257 pages
$55.00
Hardcover
Arethusa books
PA3879
Platter (classics, U. of Georgia) shows how Mikhail Bakhtin's notion of carnival consciousness--in which the categories of everyday life are temporarily inverted--can explain much about the comedy of ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. His topics include the failed program of Clouds, the aspiration of Wasps, and questioning the authority of Homer and oracular speech.
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