Roman comedy against the subject / Mario Telò.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Telò, Mario, 1977- author.

Series:

Postclassical interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plautus, Titus Maccius. Cistellaria.

Plautus, Titus Maccius.

Plautus, Titus Maccius. Aulularia.

Plautus, Titus Maccius. Rudens.

Terence. Eunuchus.

Terence.

Latin drama (Comedy)--History and criticism.

Latin drama (Comedy).

Aulularia (Plautus, Titus Maccius).

Cistellaria (Plautus, Titus Maccius).

Eunuchus (Terence).

Rudens (Plautus, Titus Maccius).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : color illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

System Details:

text file ǂ2 rdaft

Summary:

"Roman Comedy against the Subject provides an expansive interpretation of four Roman comedies named after objects (Plautus’s Cistellaria, Aulularia, and Rudens, and Terence’s Eunuchus). In this book, the titular object provides an opportunity not to reconceive the relational politics of Roman comedy, but to conceive, in and for the now, a different politics of familial and social relations with Roman comedy. Employing Adornian critique, Black critical theory, object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and theories of disability, the book radically recasts perennial problems of Roman comedy and literature in general: the author, in relation to “mothering” (alternative maternities); character, in relation to neurodiversity; genre, in relation to sibling-like parentality; and the title itself, in relation to gendering and ungendering. Roman Comedy against the Subject explores the aesthetic and political possibilities of becoming object, of embracing “itness.” Rather than assimilating objects to subjects or vital agents, the book finds emancipatory potentialities in renouncing the normative and intrinsically exclusionary subjecthood of “he,” “she,” and “they,” markers of privilege that are burdened by the violence of humanization and often dehumanizing of others. The introduction features nine brief but acute readings of modern dramas with titular objects: Tennessee Williams’s Glass Menagerie, Yukio Mishima’s The Damask Drum, Eugène Ionesco’s Les Chaises, and Alice Childress’s String, among others."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 the basket and the bond

2 the autistic p(l)ot

3 comedy on the ropes

4 untitled

Epilogue

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 17, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780198920090

0198920091

9780198920120

0198920121

OCLC:

1528039126

Publisher Number:

CIPO000263829

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.