9780691115832 - Reproducing Athens: Menander's Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City von Lape, Susan (4 Ergebnisse)

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Cloth with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. XIII., 294 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - water stain back cover bottom otherwise in perfect condition - Narratives of Resistance and Romance: -- Democracy and Comedy in the Early Hellenistic Period -- Resilient Democracy and the Rise of Romantic Comedy -- The Politics of Marriage and the Comic Marriage Plot -- Comedy's Constitutive Political Silence -- Constituting Citizens: The Laws of Genre and State -- Comedy's Poetics of Political Membership -- Opposites Attract: Rape, Romance, and -- Democratic Selection -- The Power of Love: Female Selection and Male Education -- Reproduction and Resistance -- Reproducing Democracy in Oligarchic and Autocratic Athens -- The Reproducibility of Athenian Democracy -- The Policies and Politics of Demetrius of Phaleron: -- Law, Power, and Prior Restraint -- Athens and the Antigonids: The Failed Foundation of -- Hellenistic Democracy -- Romantic" Resistance: Comedy and the Sterility of Empire -- Making Citizens in Comedy and Court -- Gender and Democratic Identity -- The Importance of Acting Athenian -- Engendering Egalitarianism -- The Politics of Seduction -- Passionate Protagonists and Practical Citizens -- The Comic Romance Narrative: Marrying Interest -- and Necessity -- Staging a Biopolitics of Democratic Citizenship -- Democratic Reproduction in the Aspis -- The Ethics of Democracy in Menanders Dyskolos -- The Politics of Love at First Sight -- The Democratic Logic of the Comic Plot -- The Class Politics of Sexual Conduct -- Performing Egalitarianism -- Ethical Identity and the Democratization of Social Relations Marriage Exchange and the Critique of Ideology Egalitarianism and Inclusion -- The Politics of Sexuality in Drama and Democratic Athens: The Case of Menanders Samia -- The Father-Son Romance -- Forensic Theater: Staging Comedy as Court -- The Consequences of Nonconjugal Cohabitation -- Demeas's Defense: Revising the Tragic Family Plot -- Shame, Poverty, and Anger: The Politics of Affect -- The Work of Prostitutes: The Importance of -- a Gender Stereotype -- The Fragility of Manhood -- The Mercenary Romance: Gender and Civic Education in the Perikeiromene and Misoumenos -- Socializing the Mercenary Lover -- Power and Punishment: Problems in the Perikeiromenê -- Learning the Language of Law: The Embedded Drama of -- Civic Education -- Gender and International Relations -- The Return of the Repressed: Gender and the -- Constraints of Genre -- Negotiations of Martial and Marital Values in the Misoumenos -- The Conquering Captive: Genre and Gender Inversion Civic Reciprocity and the Revision of Epic Manhood Ethics and Comedy's Construction of Transnational or -- Hellenic Citizenship -- Trials of Masculinity in Democratic Discourse and Menanders Sikyônioi -- The Loss of the Citizen-Soldier Ideal -- The Macedonian Question and Athenian Civic Identity -- The Moral Manliness of the Democratic Man -- Menander's Sikyônioi: The Male Recognition Plot -- Ideology and Intertextuality -- Mosch ion's Revealing Complexion -- The Lastauros: An Anti-Macedonian Tradition? -- Stratophanes' Embodied Biography -- Metadrama and the Illusion of Identity -- Remasculinizing and Reproducing the Democratic State -- Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era. -- Menanders romantic comedieswhich focus on ordinary citizens who marry for loveare most often thought of as entertainments devoid of political content. Against the view, Susan Lape argues that Menanders comedies are explicitly political. His nationalistic comedies regularly conclude by performing the laws of democratic citizen marriage, thereby promising the generation of new citizens. His transnational comedies, on the other hand, defend polis l.

Princeton University Press, 2004. In-8, cart. de l'éd., jaquette illustr., XIII-294 pp., bibliogr., index. "Reproducing Athens examines the role of romantic comedy, particularly the plays of Menander, in defending democratic culture and transnational polis culture against various threats during the initial and most fraught period of the Hellenistic Era". /92B Excellent état. Very fine condition.