Inorganic Rôles in Roman Comedy

Aristotle's Theory of Comedy

<193>Aristotle, in his Poetics, claimed that tragedy, “through pity and fear, accomplishes the catharsis of such emotions (di j ejlevou kai; fovbou peraivnousa th;n tw'n toiouvtwn paqhmavtwn kavqarsin) (Poet. 1449b27f.) .” It has been argued that the medical purgation theory of the musical catharsis in Politics is the key phrase for the interpretation of tragic catharsis, where he says, those w...

Comedy as freedom of expression

Information Science is a broad, inclusive disciplinary area. If rather than looking to define or delimit it, we look for its driving principle or ethical rationale a good choice would be Article 19 of the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights. This is a powerful statement on intellectual freedom encompassing freedom of opinion, expression and access to information. Without the freedom to gen...

THE COMEDY OF AUTHORSHIP Hinds

For centuries, readers have had great difficulty in attributing various works to the polygraph Charles Sorel. From Jean-Pierre Nicéron in the eighteenth century (1344) to Antoine-Alexandre Barbier (q.v.) and Émile Roy in the nineteenth (402-424), critics strove to establish a referential relationship between Sorel, the man, and the contradictory manifestations of authorial voice in his various ...

Studies in comedy, II: toothless wine.

In youth Carton is a savage wine, insolent, loud-voiced and blustering. But after seven years or so he has learnt manners, and can come into a room like an educated gentleman. J. B. MORTON ['Beachcomber'], A Bonfire of Weeds (London 1939) A N AMUSING but enigmatic fragment from a fourth-century Athenian comedy appears to give the lie to the idea that the precious, humanising metaphors of wine c...

"Ersatz Comedy in the Third Reich"