Performative Plautus : Sophistics, metatheater and translation / by Rodrigo Tadeu Gon�calves.

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Gon�calves, Rodrigo Tadeu [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015Description: 1 online resource (xx, 110 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781443884419
1443884413

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sophistics, metatheater and translationDDC classification:

872.01 23

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PA6585

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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