Performative Plautus

Performative Plautus
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 131
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ISBN-10 : 9781443884419
ISBN-13 : 1443884413
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Book Synopsis Performative Plautus by : Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves

Download or read book Performative Plautus written by Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a theoretical and philosophical framework for the analysis of Plautus within a performative and philosophical perspective on language and theatrical performance. The book offers an insightful understanding of Plautus’ texts as more than simple literary remains of “archaic” Latin literature, but as witnesses of a process of using language to perform an entire world through the recognition of the power of language itself as a creative and constitutive agent of theatrical codification and variation of its own rules and conventions. The analyses of several of Plautus’ plays are carried out through the lenses of Cassin’s proposal of an effet monde as a result of a performative sophistic view on language, as well as Florence Dupont’s unique stance on Roman Comedy as an example of non-Aristotelian theater, based on metatheater and convention-variation as special characteristics of a ludic theater which plays around with its own rules after putting them in the foreground. Barbara Cassin and Florence Dupont also contribute with a foreword and a preface.


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