{"product_id":"archive-feelings-mario-tel-9780814214558","title":"Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy","description":"Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us from tragic suffering, or does the proximity to death tap into something more primal? Aristotle proposed \u003ci\u003ecatharsis, \u003c\/i\u003e an emotional cleansing--or, in later interpretations, a sense of equilibrium--as tragedy's outcome, and Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan, grand theorists of the forces of anti-mastery in human and nonhuman existence, surprisingly agreed. Notwithstanding this deferral to Aristotle, their theorizations of the death drive--together with Jacques Derrida's notion of the archive as a place of conservation that inevitably fails--provide the groundwork for a radically new way of understanding tragic aesthetics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With bold readings of thirteen plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, including the Oedipus cycle, the \u003ci\u003eOresteia, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMedea, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBacchae\u003c\/i\u003e; an eclectic synthesis of Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Zizek, Deleuze, and other critical theorists; and an engagement with art, architecture, and film, Mario Telò's \u003ci\u003eArchive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e locates Greek tragedy's aesthetic allure beyond catharsis in a vertiginous sense of giddy suspension, in a spiral of life and death that resists equilibrium, stabilization, and all forms of normativity. In so doing, Telò forges a new model of tragic aesthetics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mario Telò\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081421455X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814214558\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 322\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.10d","brand":"Mario Telò","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43995258749183,"sku":"9780814214558","price":99.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5fe3f00a-4bc3-4068-bc4b-66c3bcc8811d.jpg?v=1683334779","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/archive-feelings-mario-tel-9780814214558","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}