Liebe und Liebessprache bei Menander, Plautus und Terenz. - FLURY, P.,

KORTE INHOUD

'Sensitized insight is the hallmark of Flury's dissertation. His first (and main) two chapters seek to answer two questions for Menander, Terence, and Plautus: what do the particular playwrights characters say about 'das Wesen der Liebe', and in what ways do each playwright's lovers reveal - explicitly or implicitly - their inmost feelings bout the objects of their emotion? Flury's answers are valuably illuminating. They are achieved by a close scrutinity of the evidence which incidentally gives Flury the opportunity to make some very acute observations about the techniques of characterization used by Menander and Terence. (...) The answers themselves to the posed questions extend our awareness of some important differences between Menander and Terence. To Menander's lovers Eros is an external power that thakes violent possession of them. Terence, on the other hand, never deifies or even personifies Amor: to his lovers it is one emotion amongst several that well up from inside, from the 'animus'. (...) As for... Lees verder...

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