Origin Attic Comedy by Cornford Gaster (10 results)

Condition: New. 289 pp., paperback, new. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Copyright 1961. 289 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Stain on fore edge and back cover. Damage to spine. Occassional pen markings on text. Antony Groves-Raines (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. 289 pages. Ex-university library book, light wear; pages toned; a good solid book. No jacket. 1968 reprint of 1934 title. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Literary Criticism & Essays; Inventory No: 212688.

12Mo Softcover. Condition: Fair. 289pp. Text is clean on unmarked pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with some lightly bumped corners. Moderate++ overall shelf/timewear, coverwear, cover edge and cornerwear, sunning, spotting, tiny tears at head and foot of external spine, label peel on front; foxing on inner covers and textblock edges, page patina throughout, insect damage on p175, pp175-186 are slightly miscut, have dogeared corners.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Anchor Books Edition: 1961. 289 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate internal and external wear and use. Clean text. Some previously dog-eared pages. Creased spine. Antony Groves-Raines (Cover Design) (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. lii, 289 pp.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Mild edgewear. Dust stains. [289 pages0.

Condition: Fair. Volume 263. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Library sticker on front cover. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,250grams, ISBN.…

Original brochure. Condition: Gut. 289 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Pencil entry on halft-title and cut corner of title page.Otherwise in very good condition. - Content: Francis Macdonald Comfords The Origin of Attic Comedy, first published in 1912, was (and still is) the only full-scale attempt to discover the origin of the form of drama known as Attic Old Comedy, a form represented by the eleven extant plays of Aristophanes, produced between 425 and 388 BCE, and by fragments of other plays by Aristophanes and others that date mostly from 440 at the earliest. Basing his study on Gilbert Murrays (1912) theory about the origin of tragedy, Comford started from the standard structural forms of Aristophanic comedy and sought to trace them back to religious rituals and associated proto-dramatic forms that are not attested but might be inferred in light of comparative ethnological data. Comford not only used the traditional methods of classical philology but was one of the first classicists to use the methods being developed in the then new disciplines of historical archaeology and comparative anthropology, sociology and religion. He is thus worth reading as a pioneer of the interdisciplinary approach that has revitalized classical studies in this century. He is also important as a founding member (along with Jane Ellen Harrison, Gilbert Murray and Arthur Cook) of the group known as the Cambridge Ritualists, or the Myth and Ritual School, whose work on the origins of Greek drama inaugurated an approach to myth, religion and literature that was very influential from the 1920s through the 1960s and still has some followers today.1 Though most classicists have been from the beginning very suspicious of, and even hostile to, this kind of approach, it has been in recent years both sympathetically reevaluated and taken up again in exciting new directions.2 Historical interest aside, The Origin of Attic Comedy is worth reading today because its basic approach is still valid and its results, though wrong in many details, prove essentially right in others, establishing the book as a solid starting point for further research. ISBN 9780472081950 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 360.…