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Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds by Daphne E O'Regan; Aristofanes is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds about?

This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds . O'Regan focuses on logos , or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos --explored in the comic mode, and connected with the intentions and vicissitudes of the first and second Clouds .

Author

Daphne E O'Regan; Aristofanes

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195361452

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism