O parabazie u jej antycznych źródeł
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2008
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM
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On parabasis in its ancient sources
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Modern reflection on a literary work uses the term "parabasis", which has been borrowed from
ancient tradition. In the article the author goes back to the very sources of parabasis and reminds
the meaning of the word parabasis which in Greek means departure from something, leaving the
stage and the chorus remains to address the audience directly and in reference to Old Attic comedy,
with which it is unequivocally associated, it means the structural part of a literary work in
which a suspense of dramatic action occurs. Particular parabases were discussed which are found
in the extant comedies of Aristophanes, this in order to find out that in none of the comedies it
occurs in its complete model form as accepted by classical philologists on the basis of material
known from Aristophanes and from fragments of comedies by other authors. The practical function
of parabasis and its particular parts were shown on the example of The Knights by Aristophanes.
In the final part of the article the author presented some contemporary views on parabasis
of which some speak traditionally about breaking the scenic illusion while the others about
the integral relation of parabasis with the other parts of the comedy. The author concludes that in
spite of all parabases in Greek comedy have no parallel either in the earlier or in the later Greek
literature. It has its own poetics, its own structure, and explicitly breaks science illusion, even if
Greeks differently viewed the very phenomenon of breaking illusion in drama.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, nr 10, 2008, s. 11-18.
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978-83-232-1946-0
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1644-6763