Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece. - STEHLE, Eva,
nondramatic poetry in its setting
KORTE INHOUD
?The book consists of six chapters with an introduction and a brief conclusion. The introduction opens with six ancient reports about performances, some of which touch upon the staging or self-presentation of the performers. This self-presentation can encompass many characteristics, including the performers? physical fitness, social status, wealth, or gender. Stehle argues that the latter was considered particularly important in antiquity and is nowadays most easily detetable, because it is reflected in the language of the texts. (? ) Sthele recognizes three types of performances in early Greece to which she relates the three major genres of poetry: (1) community performances (chapters 1-3), reflected mostly in choral poetry, (2) performances by bards of hexameter poetry (chapter 4), and (3) symposia (chapter 5), where most monodic lyric together with elegy and iambos was performed. Chapter 6 is devoted to Sappho, whose love poetry, Stehle argues, ? was designed to escape the tyranny of the performance cultur...
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Princeton, 1996. XV,367p. Original grey cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Nice copy.Antiquarian Titel: Performance and Gender in Ancient Greece. Auteur: STEHLE, Eva,
?The book consists of six chapters with an introduction and a brief conclusion. The introduction opens with six ancient reports about performances, some of which touch upon the staging or self-presentation of the performers. This self-presentation can encompass many characteristics, including the performers? physical fitness, social statu...
?The book consists of six chapters with an introduction and a brief conclusion. The introduction opens with six ancient reports about performances, some of which touch upon the staging or self-presentation of the performers. This self-presentation can encompass many characteristics, including the performers? physical fitness, social statu...
