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Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After

Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After

Alexiou, Margaret
Cairns, Douglas

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies

Literary CriticismAncient GreeceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1474403794
ISBN13: 9781474403795
Publisher: Edinburgh Univ Pr
Published: Jun 25 2017
Pages: 504
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
What makes us laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time? How do these two primal, seemingly discrete and non-verbal modes of expression intersect in everyday life and ritual, and what range of emotions do they evoke? How may they be voiced, shaped and coloured in literature and liturgy, art and music? Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears. With a focus on the tragic, the comic and the tragicomic dimensions of laughter and tears in art, literature and performance, as well as on their emotional, socio-cultural and religious significance, it breaks new ground in the study of ancient and Byzantine affectivity.

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