Aristophanes and the poetics of surprise

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to examine the variety, the mechanisms, and the poetological intention of the effect of surprise in Aristophanic comedy, addressing the phenomenon not as a self-evident or unselfconscious element of comedy as a genre, but as an elaborate system which characteri...

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Main Author: Kanellakis, D
Other Authors: D'Angour, A
Format: Thesis
Published: 2019
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