Thursday, January 7, 2010

WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BEST-KNOWN ANCIENT GREEK COMIC DRAMATIST?

The best-known ancient Greek comic dramatist, Aristophanes

His play Lysistrata (411) is the most famous of his plays. In this play women of Greece stage a sex strike to end a war.

Nice site, gives a lot of quick look at important topics.

<http://www.english.hawaii.edu/criticalink/readguide.html>

Aristotle
Poetics
Reference: Aristotle. Poetics.
Trans. S. H. Butcher. Ed. Hazard Adams. Critical Theory since Plato.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971. 48-66.

Sigmund Freud
"On Narcissism: An Introduction"
Reference: Sigmund Freud. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Ed. James Strachey. London: Hogarth.

Martin Heidegger
"The Question Concerning Technology"
Reference: Martin Heidegger. "The Question Concerning Technology."
Ed. David Farrell Krell. Trans. William Lovitt. Martin Heidegger: Basic Writings.
New York: Harper & Row, 1977. 287-317.

Jacques Lacan
"The Mirror Stage"
Reference: Jacques Lacan. "The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience."
Trans. Alan Sheridan. Ecrits: A Selection.
New York: Norton, 1977. 1-7.

Plato
Phaedrus
Reference: Plato. Phaedrus. Trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1995.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
"Echo"
Reference: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. "Echo."
New Literary History 24 (1993): 17-43.


 

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