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Introduction: Before

  • Mario Telò(author)
Chapter of: The Before and the After: Critical Asynchrony Now(pp. 13–30)
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TitleIntroduction
SubtitleBefore
ContributorMario Telò(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0446.1.02
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-before-and-the-after-critical-asynchrony-now/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightMario Telò
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2025-01-29
Long abstract

An introduction to the agenda of the volume focusing on the entanglements of temporalities—uncanny achronies and synchronies— that emerge in the practices of writing about classics and the classical tradition in pandemic and pan-endemic times.

Page rangepp. 13–30
Print length18 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • temporality
  • achrony
  • pandemic
  • Jacques Derrida
  • synchrony
  • explication de texte
Contributors

Mario Telò

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Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at University of California, Berkeley
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-1984

Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy: Affect, Aesthetics and the Canon (2016); Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy (2020); Greek Tragedy in a Global Crisis: Reading through Pandemic Times (2023); Resistant Form: Aristophanes and the Comedy of Crisis (2023); Judith Butler and the Ethics of Greek Tragedy (2024), and the forthcoming Roman Comedy against the Subject and Edward Said and the Late Animal: The Queer Politics of Greco-Roman Style. He is also the co-editor of Greek Comedy and the Discourse of Genres (2013); The Materialities of Greek Tragedy (2018); Queer Euripides (2022); Radical Formalisms (2023); and Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory (2024)

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