{"product_id":"roman-comedy-against-the-subject-mario-telze-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mario Telò\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198920091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198920090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mario Telò","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47424984285439,"sku":"9780198920090","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_67f01b99-3afa-40ae-96c1-37cb2c0e1227.jpg?v=1761536202","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/roman-comedy-against-the-subject-mario-telze-9780198920090","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}