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The art of Aristophanes: translation and poetical study of Frogs
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| Author(s): |
Tadeu Bruno da Costa Andrade
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2014-11-07 |
| Examining board members: |
João Angelo Oliva Neto;
Adriane da Silva Duarte;
Érico Nogueira
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| Advisor: | João Angelo Oliva Neto |
| Abstract | |
This dissertation intends to contribute to the study of the poetics of Ancient Comedy. It analyses how the play Frogs employs generic conventions, and presents a translation into Portuguese, so that readers who have no knowledge of Ancient Greek can access the debate. All formal elements in Ancient Comedy (structure, plot, characters, elocution, metre and spectacle) seem to be defined by three aspects: physicality, accumulation and discontinuity. Out of the conjunction of these traits emerges Ancient Comedy\'s distinctive effect: the feeling of connection, freedom, fulfilment and satisfaction. Another function of fifth and early fourth-century Attic Comedy was to comment and influence Athens\' politics. The plot of Ancient Comedy is not strictly organical, and its coherence relies on the pervasive themes and images of a play, which make themselves known especially in the parabasis and the reiteration of words with similar stems and meaning. In Frogs, these themes are good birth, moral virtue and poetry, which Aristophanes interconnects. The poet seems to sacrifice a little of comic satisfaction in order to stress the exhortative character of the play, which recommends the choice of good leaders and the end of both civil strife and war against the Peloponnesians. At last, the dissertation analyses translations of Aristophanes\' plays into Portuguese, and proposes how the traits identified in the first part can be made visible in Portuguese. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/16203-2 - Poetic Translation of Aristophanes Frogs |
| Grantee: | Tadeu Bruno da Costa Andrade |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |