For Frye, this "new poetics" is to be found in the principle of the mythological framework, which has come to be known as 'archetypal criticism'. It is through the lens of this framework, which is ess ...
Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec but raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, Frye was the third child of Herman Edward Frye and of Catherine Maud Howard. His much older brother, Howard, died in World War I; he al ...
In one sense, agon meant a contest or a competition in athletics, Particularly the Olympic Games (?λυμπιακο? ?γ?νε?). Agon was also a mythological personification of the contests liste ...
The word τραγ?δ?α (tragoidia), from which the word "tragedy" is derived, is a compound of two Greek words: τρ?γο? (tragos) or "goat" and ?δ? (ode) meaning "song", from ?ε?δειν ...
The Alexandrine grammarians, and most likely Aristophanes of Byzantium in particular, seem to have been the first to divide Greek comedy into what became the canonical three periods: Old Comedy (?ρ ...
Satire can be traced back throughout history; wherever organized government, or social categories, has existed, so has satire.The oldest example that has survived till today is Aristophanes. In his ti ...
In stand-up comedy, the feedback of the audience is instant and crucial for the comedian's act. Audiences expect a stand-up comic to provide a steady stream of laughs, and a performer is always under ...
Another interesting insight into Athenian democracy comes from the law that excluded from decisions of war those citizens who had property close to the city walls - on the basis that they had a person ...
The word "democracy" (Greek: δημοκρατ?α) combines the elements dêmos (δ?μο?, which means "people") and krátos (κρ?το?, which means "force" or "power"). In the words "monarchy" a ...
"Film theory" seeks to develop concise and systematic concepts that apply to the study of film as art. The concept of film as an art-form began with Ricciotto Canudo's The Birth of the Sixth Art. Form ...
TV employs a combination of optical, mechanical, and electronic technologies to capture, transmit, and display a visual image. Modern broadcast TV systems rely on the electronic methods, although the ...
Theatre presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborativ ...
Main article: History of theatreClassical and Hellenistic Greece A master (right) and his slave (left) in a Greek phlyax play, circa 350/340 BCEThe city-state of Athens is where western theatre origin ...
Children are said to laugh a great deal more than adults: an average baby laughing 300-400 times a day compared to an average adult laughing only 15-20 times a day; however the cited article, written ...
Radar and optical detectors such as lidar are the main tools used for tracking space debris. However, determining orbits to allow reliable re-acquisition is problematic. Tracking objects smaller than ...
