{"product_id":"roman-comedy-against-the-subject-9780198920090","title":"Roman Comedy Against the Subject","description":"\u003cem\u003eRoman Comedy against the Subject\u003c\/em\u003e provides an expansive interpretation of four Roman comedies named after objects--Plautus's \u003cem\u003eCistellaria\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Aulularia\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRudens\u003c\/em\u003e, and Terence's \u003cem\u003eEunuchus\u003c\/em\u003e. In this book, the titular object provides an opportunity not to reconceive the relational politics of Roman comedy, but to conceive a different politics of familial and social relations with Roman comedy. Employing object-oriented ontology, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and Black critical theory, 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. \u003cem\u003eRoman Comedy against the Subject \u003c\/em\u003eexplores the aesthetic and political possibilities of becoming object, of embracing \"itness.\" Rather than assimilating objects to subjects or vital agents, the book finds emancipatory potential 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 object-oriented modern dramas: Tennessee Williams's \u003cem\u003eGlass Menagerie\u003c\/em\u003e, Yukio Mishima's \u003cem\u003eThe Damask Drum\u003c\/em\u003e, Eugène Ionesco's \u003cem\u003eLes Chaises\u003c\/em\u003e, and Alice Childress's \u003cem\u003eString\u003c\/em\u003e, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMario Telò, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, University of California Berkeley\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at UC Berkeley. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eAristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect. Aesthetics, and the Canon\u003c\/em\u003e (University of Chicago Press, 2016), \u003cem\u003eArchive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e (Ohio State University Press, 2020), \u003cem\u003eGreek Tragedy in a Global Criis: Reading through Pandemic Times\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2023), \u003cem\u003eResistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e (Punctum Books, 2023), and \u003cem\u003eReading Greek Tragedy with Judith Butler\u003c\/em\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2024).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749376852242,"sku":"9780198920090","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d13c5fb2-9c41-423a-83e3-36750db9a914.jpg?v=1764081568","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/roman-comedy-against-the-subject-9780198920090","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}