Roman comedy against the subject /
"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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Postclassical interventions.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : color illustrations. |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780198920090 0198920091 9780198920120 0198920121 9780198920106 0198920105 0198920113 9780198920113 |