Aristophanes and the cloak of comedy : affect, aesthetics, and the canon / Mario Telò.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Telò, Mario, 1977- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aristophanes--Criticism and interpretation.

Aristophanes.

Greek drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Comedy).

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 237 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Contents:

1 Delayed Applause: Competitive Aesthetics and the Construction of the Comic Canon 1

1 Triumphant Failure: Peace, Clouds, and the Poetics of Hierarchy 3

2 Parabasis, Plot, and the Directionality of the Text 10

3 Affecting the Audience: Knights, Clouds, and the Feel of Comedy 14

Part 1 Wasps

2 A Touch of Class: The Enduring Texture of Aristophanic Comedy 27

1 Converging Identities: Bdelycleon and Aristophanes between Parabasis and Plot 28

2 Contest of Cloaks: Restaging the First Clouds 31

3 The Daemons in the Details: Sensing the Cratinean Fashion 42

4 Aristophanic Fabric and Comic Canonicity 49

5 Conclusions 55

3 Emotional Rescue and Generic Demotion: Old Comedians and Tragedy's Ragged Audience 56

1 Intersecting Affects: Tragic Love as Comic Disease 58

2 Anger and the Aesthetics of Alienation 63

3 Wrapping Walls: Affective Mimesis and Proto-Canonical Therapy 68

4 Ragged Feelings: The Comic Audience as a Tragic Parent 76

5 Conclusions 86

4 The Broken Net: Comic Failure and Its Consequences 88

1 An Iambic Erinys: Cratinus, Affect, and Tragic Havoc 90

2 Aesopic Agonistics: Fables and Comic Redress 101

3 Undoing Failure: Dire Dancing and Ersatz Liberation 109

4 Conclusions 120

Part 2 Clouds

5 Aristophanes' Electra Complex and the Future of Comedy 125

1 Aristophanes' Oresteia 127

2 The Comic Stage as Tragic Classroom: The Audience Meets Socrates (and Eupolis) 135

3 Stripping Strepsiades: Socrates, Eupolis, Clytemnestra 140

4 Revision as Revenge: Stolen Cloaks and Suffocating Sons 144

5 Conclusions 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226309699

022630969X

OCLC:

919341744