10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STICHOMYTHIC»
Discover the use of
stichomythic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stichomythic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Publications; Philology and Literature
More significant than these, however, is the stichomythic couplet debate, already
employed in The Siege of Rhodes, and later to become almost a mania with the
Restoration dramatists. This occurs, with very little Spanish influence on subject ...
University of Pennsylvania, 1917
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Studies in English Drama: First Series
More significant than these, however, is the stichomythic couplet debate, already
employed in The Siege of Rhodes, and later to become almost a mania with the
Restoration dramatists. This occurs, with very little Spanish influence on subject ...
3
Patterned Aimlessness: Iris Murdoch's Novels of the 1970s ...
In order to have the reader analyze the grammar of her characters' language, she
presents long, untagged stichomythic dialogues with few clues as to which
character is speaking which lines. These language games, sometimes choruses
of ...
Barbara Stevens Heusel, 1995
921, Tpefiti de y' avdpos noxOos finevas eaca, it is a stichomythic retort in the
eternal debate between the sexes. There are several good cases in Sophocles.
In the altercation between Menelaus and Teucer in the Ajax (1142) Menelaus ...
5
Sophocles and the Language of Tragedy
Shouts and silence, mismatched, misfired. The violence within the family is
expressed through a stichomythic exchange where characters do not inhabit the
same space – offstage/on stage – do not engage with each other, do not affect
each ...
For example, the stichomythic exchange initiated by the chorus-leader in
Agamemnon manoeuvres the Herald from his announcement of the fall of Troy to
his account of the disastrous storm that destroyed the Greek fleet. Stichomythia
also ...
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L. Annaeus Seneca Troades: Introduction, Text, and Commentary
327-36 In the following strictly stichomythic lines, the opponents change their
tone: real arguments instead of personal insults, sententiae instead of allusions,
and a returning to the essential issue (330-1). On this passage, see Seidensticker
, p.
8
The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of ...
In the Persians, the stichomythic passage (2.3 0—248) shared by the queen and
the chorus on the subject of Athens appears at a position in the play that
concludes the second section (140—248). Like a mondo, it is used to elicit
information.
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Contact and Discontinuity: Some Conventions of Speech and ...
One must admit, however, that in certain cases the gradual conveying of
information ab ovo seems to be due mainly to enjoyment of the stichomythic form
for its own sake: the ab ovo genealogy of I A 697ff. and the similar genealogical ...
Donald J. Mastronarde, 1979
10
Fated Sky: The Femina Furens in Shakespeare
Imogen also expresses her anger in stichomythic exchanges with the men in the
play who are the most cruel to her and to themselves. Her assertiveness with her
father about her elopement with Posthumus suggests that she is more ...
Michael L. Stapleton, 2000
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STICHOMYTHIC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
stichomythic is used in the context of the following news items.
A Breakfast of Eels review – a gradual erosion of sibling secrets
The dialogue is delicate and inward, with none of the stichomythic punch that has become shorthand for realism on the stage. There is no violent action. Holman ... «The Guardian, Mar 15»
Pelléas et Mélisande, Philharmonia, Salonen, RFH
... she instead found beauty and psychological interest in disjuncture, in the stichomythic exchanges that divide a single melody into conversational fragments. «The Arts Desk, Nov 14»
Girls on Film: Why no teen film compares to Heathers
The more defined and powerful — whether they be popular kids or adults with authority — are more stichomythic. The less defined and desperate speak more ... «The Week Magazine, Mar 14»
Putting It Together – review
Caroline Sheen joins Dee in a stichomythic (lines alternating between players) battle of bitchiness from the rarely seen Anyone Can Whistle. And Damian ... «The Guardian, Jan 14»
We Trolled The ESPN Comments One Last Time Before They're …
After one particularly stichomythic discussion with another concerned citizen about why our elected president wasn't doing anything to stop the volcanoes, ... «Deadspin, Jul 13»
Theater Review (NYC): The Bad and the Better by Derek Ahonen
A 21st century noir shot through with stichomythic dialogue and eventually littered with corpses, The Bad and the Better flutters off its moorings towards the end. «Blogcritics.org, Jun 12»
