Radical Formalisms

Sarah Nooter is Professor of Classics, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Chicago, USA.Mario Telò is Professor of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: A Word Besides, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA)Introduction, Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA)Part I: Shaping Forms1. Myth Formalism and Black Expression: The Case of Icarus, Patrice Rankine (University of Chicago, USA)2. What Was Classics? Shane Butler (John Hopkins University, USA)3. Mixed Media: Two Black Artists and the Icons of Classical Antiquity, Allannah Karas (University of Miami, USA)Part II: Proximate Forms4. Two Ways of Being Alone: Dual Form in Sappho Fragment 168b, Alex Purves (UCLA, USA)5. Aristophanes and the Flying Sound, Sarah Nooter (University of Chicago, USA)6. What Thou Art We Know Not: Pindar and Romanticism, Tom Phillips (University of Manchester, UK)7. "I'm sorry about the poem"; 'Narcissi' and Incommensurability in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Lucy', Ren Ellis Neyra (Wesleyan University, USA)Part III: Forms (Un)becoming8. Heraclitus Stuttered, Victoria Wohl (University of Toronto, Canada)9. Electra, Again, Sarah Olsen (Williams College, USA)10. A Poetics of Imperceptibility in Statius's 'Thebaid', Efrossini Spentzou (Royal Holloway University, UK)11. Form as Precarious Shelter: Gwendolyn Brooks' 'In the Mecca', Lucy Alford (Wake Forest University, USA)Part IV: Forms Unfurling12. Formalizations at the Threshold: Introductions to Horace, Victoria Rimell (University of Warwick, UK)13. Quite a Bind: Couplet, Constraint, Claustrophobia, i.e., Ovid's 'Ibis', Tom Geue (Australian National University, Australia14. Open Form in Nathaniel Mackey, Sean Alexander Gurd (University of Texas, Austin, USA)15. 'Chal Chal Chal': Apollonius's Talos Tales (and Medea's), Mario Telo (University of California, Berkeley, USA)NotesBibliographyContributorsIndex

This volume provocatively explores the aesthetic and political possibilities of deconstructionist and postcritical approaches to form in ancient texts. While readers may variously be stimulated, challenged, or infuriated by its close and transparently subjective engagement with phenomenological aspects of reading, Radical Formalisms offers classical studies a fresh critical path forward.