Resistant Form Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis

Can attending to poetic form help us imagine a radical politics and bridge the gap between pressing contemporary political concerns and an ancient literature that often seems steeped in dynamics of oppression? The corpus of the fifth-century Athenian playwright Aristophanes includes some of the fun...

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Main Author: Telò, Mario (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2023
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