Resistant Form Aristophanes And The Comedy Of Crisis

Author : Mario Telò
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781685710880

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Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis by Mario Telò Pdf

Can attending to poetic form help us imagine a radical politics and bridge the gap between pressing contemporary political concerns and an ancient literature that often seems steeped in dynamics of oppression? The corpus of the fifth-century Athenian playwright Aristophanes includes some of the funniest yet most disturbing comedies of Western literature. His work’s anarchic experimentation with language invites a radically “oversensitive” hyperformalism, a formalistic overanalysis that disrupts, disables, or even abolishes a range of normativities (government, labor, reproduction, gender). Exceeding not just historicist contextualism, but also conventional notions of laughter and the logic of the joke, Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis uses Aristophanes to fully embrace, in the practice of close or “too-close” reading, the etymological and conceptual nexus of crisis, critique, and literary criticism. These exuberant readings of Birds, Frogs, Lysistrata, and Women at the Thesmophoria, together with the first attempt ever to grapple with the comic style of critical theorists Gilles Deleuze, Achille Mbembe, and Jack Halberstam, connect Aristophanes with contemporary discourses of biopolitics, necrocitizenship, care, labor, and transness, and at the same time disclose a quasi- or para-Aristophanic mode in the written textures of critical theory. Here is a radically new approach to the literary criticism of the pre-modern – one that materializes the circuit of crisis and critique through a restless inhabitation of the becomings and unbecomings of comic form.

Author : Sarah Nooter,Mario Telò
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350377448

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Radical Formalisms by Sarah Nooter,Mario Telò Pdf

The term "radical formalism" refers to strategies aimed at defamiliarising and revitalising conventional modes of formalistic reading and theorising form. These strategies disrupt and unsettle established norms while incorporating a metadiscursive awareness of their broader political implications. This volume presents a radical reconceptualisation of literary works from Greek and Roman antiquity. Engaging in an ongoing dialogue with critical theory and postcritique, as well as drawing inspiration from traditions rooted in Black art, poetry and philosophy-both directly and indirectly connected to the classical tradition-the essays in this collection explore subversions of canonical norms and resistances to the hegemony of textual order. This collection not only provides new, provocative insights into a corpus of texts that has exerted a lasting impact on modern literature and philosophy, but also challenges current interpretive methods, recasting the very practice of reading in relation to form, poetics, language, sound, temporalities and textuality.

Author : Ella Haselswerdt,Sara H. Lindheim,Kirk Ormand
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000912173

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The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory by Ella Haselswerdt,Sara H. Lindheim,Kirk Ormand Pdf

New directions in queer theory continue to trouble the boundaries of both queerness and the classical, leading to an explosion of new work in the vast—and increasingly uncharted—intersection between these disciplines, which this interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore. This handbook convenes an international group of experts who work on the classical world and queer theory. The discipline of Classics has been involved with, and implicated in, queer theory from the start. By placing front and center the rejection of heteronormativity, queer theory has provided Classics with a powerful tool for analyzing non-normative sexual and gender relations in the ancient West, while Classics offers queer theory ancient material (such as literature, visual arts, and social practices) that challenges a wide range of modern normative categories. The collection demonstrates the vitality of this particular moment in queer classical studies, featuring an expansive array of methodologies applied to the interdisciplinary field of Classics. Embracing the indeterminacy that lies at the core of queer studies, the essays in this volume are organized not by chronology or genre, but rather by overlapping categories under the following rubrics: queer subjectivities, queer times and places, queer kinships, queer receptions, and ancient pasts/queer futures. The Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory offers an invaluable collection for anyone working on queer theory, especially as it applies to premodern periods; it will also be of interest to scholars engaging with the history of sexuality, both in the ancient world and more broadly.

Author : Andreas Markantonatos,Bernhard Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110271560

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Crisis on Stage by Andreas Markantonatos,Bernhard Zimmermann Pdf

This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together internationally distinguished scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. These specialists study how tragic and comic plays composed in late fifth century BCE mirror the acute political and social crisis unfolding in Athens in the wake of the military catastrophe in 413 BCE and the oligarchic revolution in 411 BCE. With events of such magnitude the late fifth century held the potential for vast and fast cultural and intellectual change. In times of severe emergency humans gain a more conscious understanding of their historically shaped presence; this realization often has a welcome effect of offering new perspectives to tackle future challenges. Over twenty academic experts believe that the Attic theatre showed increased responsiveness to the pressing social and political issues of the day to the benefit of the polis. By regularly promoting examples of public-spirited and capable figures of authority, Greek drama provided the people of Athens with a civic understanding of their own good.

Author : Ralph M. Rosen,Helene P. Foley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004424463

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Aristophanes and Politics by Ralph M. Rosen,Helene P. Foley Pdf

This book presents a collection of new studies on the political aspects of Aristophanes’ comic plays, produced in Athens in the latter half of the 5th century BCE.

Author : Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Comedy
ISBN : UOM:39015028481672

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Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds by Daphne Elizabeth O'Regan Pdf

This is an intelligent and unusually thought-provoking reading of Aristophanes' Clouds. O'Regan focuses on logos, or the power of argument, and its effects, and on the self-awareness of the second Clouds as a comedy of logos directed toward an audience made resistant by devotion to the body. Within and without the play, logos meets defeat when confronted with human nature and desire. The argument conveys much insight into fifth-century thought and the play's workings, the more so because it balances rhetoric with comedy, and reminds the reader that this is a comic logos--explored in the comic mode, and connected with the intentions and vicissitudes of the first and second Clouds.

Author : M. S. Silk
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198140290

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Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy by M. S. Silk Pdf

In this book Professor Silk presents a radically new critical study of Aristophanes. Through an exploration of Aristophanes' comic poetry, informed by a wide range of theory from Kierkegaard to Adorno, a particular consideration of Aristophanes' own understanding of his medium, and challenging comparisons with modern literature, this book adds a new chapter to the long-standing debate about the nature and potentialities of comedy.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:226089797

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The Comedies of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Pdf

Author : Aristophanes Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1330801806

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The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) by Aristophanes Aristophanes Pdf

Excerpt from The Comedies of Aristophanes, Vol. 2 In offering this Second Volume of Aristophanes to the Public, the Translator cannot forbear to express his acknowledgments for the very serious attention which the two leading Critical Journals of the country were pleased to bestow upon his first, tie has endeavoured to show his sense of that attention, not only by altering the arrangement of his work, but by changing very considerably the manner of conducting it; and though by so doing he may have escaped some errors only to fall into others of a contrary description, his critics will not have to reckon among them an obstinate adherence to his own opinion of the right nature of translation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Aristophanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1492775533

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The Frogs of Aristophanes by Aristophanes Pdf

"High thoughts must have high language."THE FROGS was produced the year after the death of Euripides, and laments the decay of Greek tragedy which Aristophanes attributed to that writer. It is an admirable example of the brilliance of his style, and of that mingling of wit and poetry with rollicking humor and keen satirical point which is his chief characteristic.Aristophanes, the greatest of comic writers in Greek and in the opinion of many, in any language, is the only one of the Attic comedians any of whose works has survived in complete form He was born in Athens about the middle of the fifth century B C, and had his first comedy produced when he was so young that his name was withheld on account of his youth. He is credited with over forty plays, eleven of which survive, along with the names and fragments of some twenty-six others. His satire deal with political, religious, and literary topics, and with all its humor and fancy is evidently the outcome of profound conviction and a genuine patriotism. The Attic comedy was produced at the festivals of Dionysus, which were marked by great license, and to this, rather than to the individual taste of the poet, must be ascribed the undoubted coarseness of many of the jests. Aristophanes seems, indeed, to have been regarded by his contemporaries as a man of noble character. He died shortly after the production of his "Plutus," in 388 B. C."The Frogs" was produced the year after the death of Euripides, and laments the decay of Greek tragedy which Aristophanes attributed to that writer. It is an admirable example of the brilliance of his style, and of that mingling of wit and poetry with rollicking humor and keen satirical point which is his chief characteristic. Here, as elsewhere, he stands for tradition against innovation of all kinds, whether in politics, religion, or art. The hostility to Euripides displayed here and in several other plays, like his attacks on Socrates, is a result of this attitude of conservatism. The present play is notable also as a piece of elaborate if not over-serious literary criticism from the pen of a great poet.

Author : Sarah Olsen,Mario Telò
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350249639

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Queer Euripides by Sarah Olsen,Mario Telò Pdf

This volume is the first attempt to reconsider the entire corpus of an ancient canonical author through the lens of queerness broadly conceived, taking as its subject Euripides, the latest of the three great Athenian tragedians. Although Euripides' plays have long been seen as a valuable source for understanding the construction of gender and sexuality in ancient Greece, scholars of Greek tragedy have only recently begun to engage with queer theory and its ongoing developments. Queer Euripides represents a vital step in exploring the productive perspectives on classical literature afforded by the critical study of orientations, identities, affects and experiences that unsettle not only prescriptive understandings of gender and sexuality, but also normative social structures and relations more broadly. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by experts in classical studies, English literature, performance and critical theory, this carefully curated collection of incisive and provocative readings of each surviving play draws upon queer models of temporality, subjectivity, feeling, relationality and poetic form to consider "queerness" both as and beyond sexuality. Rather than adhering to a single school of thought, these close readings showcase the multiple ways in which queer theory opens up new vantage points on the politics, aesthetics and performative force of Euripidean drama. They further demonstrate how the analytical frameworks developed by queer theorists in the last thirty years deeply resonate with the ways in which Euripides' plays twist poetic form in order to challenge well-established modes of the social. By establishing how Greek tragedy can itself be a resource for theorizing queerness, the book sets the stage for a new model of engaging with ancient literature, which challenges current interpretive methods, explores experimental paradigms, and reconceptualizes the practice of reading to place it firmly at the center of the interpretive act.

Author : Andreas Malm
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839762178

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Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency by Andreas Malm Pdf

What does the COVID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown, and what should we do about it? The economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain social order and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the notion that we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is not possible? Secondly, if the state can mobilize itself in the face of an invisible foe like this pandemic, it should also be able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force. In Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency, leading environmental thinker, Andreas Malm demands that this war-footing state should be applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present emergency to make that case. There can be no excuse for inaction any longer.

Author : Mario Telò
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0814257739

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Archive Feelings by Mario Telò Pdf

Using classic Greek texts and modern theory, Telò forges a new model of tragic aesthetics.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003252636

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A Midsummer-night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Mario Telò,Melissa Mueller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781350028807

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The Materialities of Greek Tragedy by Mario Telò,Melissa Mueller Pdf

Situated within contemporary posthumanism, this volume offers theoretical and practical approaches to materiality in Greek tragedy. Established and emerging scholars explore how works of the three major Greek tragedians problematize objects and affect, providing fresh readings of some of the masterpieces of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The so-called new materialisms have complemented the study of objects as signifiers or symbols with an interest in their agency and vitality, their sensuous force and psychosomatic impact-and conversely their resistance and irreducible aloofness. At the same time, emotion has been recast as material "affect,†? an intense flow of energies between bodies, animate and inanimate. Powerfully contributing to the current critical debate on materiality, the essays collected here destabilize established interpretations, suggesting alternative approaches and pointing toward a newly robust sense of the physicality of Greek tragedy.