How Long to Read Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis

How Long Does it Take to Read Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 14 minutes to read Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis by Mario Telò

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 funniest yet most disturbing comedies of Western literature. His work’s anarchic experimentation with language invites a radically “oversensitive” hyperformalism, a formalistic overanalysis that disrupts, disables, or even abolishes a range of normativities (government, labor, reproduction, gender). Exceeding not just historicist contextualism, but also conventional notions of laughter and the logic of the joke, Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis uses Aristophanes to fully embrace, in the practice of close or “too-close” reading, the etymological and conceptual nexus of crisis, critique, and literary criticism. These exuberant readings of Birds, Frogs, Lysistrata, and Women at the Thesmophoria, together with the first attempt ever to grapple with the comic style of critical theorists Gilles Deleuze, Achille Mbembe, and Jack Halberstam, connect Aristophanes with contemporary discourses of biopolitics, necrocitizenship, care, labor, and transness, and at the same time disclose a quasi- or para-Aristophanic mode in the written textures of critical theory. Here is a radically new approach to the literary criticism of the pre-modern – one that materializes the circuit of crisis and critique through a restless inhabitation of the becomings and unbecomings of comic form.

How long is Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis?

Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis by Mario Telò is 419 pages long, and a total of 108,521 words.

This makes it 141% the length of the average book. It also has 133% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 53 minutes to read Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis aloud.

What Reading Level is Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis?

Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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