“When he should have said...” The treatment of humour παρ’ ὑπόνοιαν in the Aristophanic Scholia
While the Aristophanic scholia do not normally pay much attention to the mechanisms of verbal humour, there are numerous annotations pointing out jokes “against expectation”. The term typically used for this common phenomenon is παρ᾿ ὑπόνοιαν rather than παρὰ προσδοκίαν, although the latter also occ...
Main Author: | Willi, A |
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Other Authors: | Apostolakis, K |
Format: | Book section |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2024
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