"A Manifesto for Literary Studies," writes Marjorie Garber, "is an attempt to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary questions, and the pleasure of thinking through and with literature. It is a manifesto in the sense that it invites strong declarations and big ideas, rather than impeccable small contributions to edifices long under construction." Known for her timely challenges to the preconceptions and often unquestioned boundaries that circumscribe our culture, Garber's beautifully crafted arguments situate "big public questions of intellectual importance" -...
"A Manifesto for Literary Studies," writes Marjorie Garber, "is an attempt to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary ...
Cultural historian Marjorie Garber offers incisive and witty commentary on what men and women today really want in her enlightening study of what may be the most meaningful relationship any of us will ever have. Real estate has become a form of yuppie pornography. Hopes of summer romance have given way to hopes of summer homes, and fantasies of Romeo have been replaced by fantasies of remodeling. Even real estate ads are flirtatious in their offers of bedrooms that are sensuous and sinks that are seductive. Thus the house you live in, like the partner you choose, can be everything from...
Cultural historian Marjorie Garber offers incisive and witty commentary on what men and women today really want in her enlightening study of what may ...
From its beginning, the story of Medusa has fascinated and terrified listeners and readers, for what is most compelling in this myth is Medusa's intrinsic doubleness: the woman who could turn a careless onlooker to stone has become a symbol of all that is irresistible. This is a major anthology of primary and critical material on this enigmatic figure.
From its beginning, the story of Medusa has fascinated and terrified listeners and readers, for what is most compelling in this myth is Medusa's intri...
Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.
Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone inter...
Marjorie B. Garber Rebecca L. Walkowitz Jann Matlock
With close attention to the nuances of language, tone, metaphor and figure, Media Spectacles brings together critics from general fields to examine a series of remarkable news and media spectacles. Sixteen contributors explore the languages of word and image that produce current events as spectacle, reading the world in which we live through the lens of interpretation. Included are such topics as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the crisis in health care, the Clarence Thomas hearings and the testimony of Anita Hill, Oliver Stone's JFK and the consequent call to open the files on the...
With close attention to the nuances of language, tone, metaphor and figure, Media Spectacles brings together critics from general fields to examine a ...
When the American Bar Association recreated the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the fortieth anniversary of their execution, the jury acquitted the "mock Rosenbergs," finding that in today's courts they would not have been convicted of espionage. The 1950s trial of the Rosenbergs on charges of "Atomic Spying" and "stealing the secrets of the Atomic bomb" was a major event of Cold War America, galvanizing public opinion on all sides of the question. Secret Agents presents essays by lawyers, cultural critics, social historians and historians...
When the American Bar Association recreated the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the fortieth anniversary of their execution, the jury acquitted...
This volume of presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities. It brings together such leading figures as Sacvan Bercovitch and Helen Vendler, Anthony Appiah and Barbara Johnson, Seyla Benhabib and Norman Bryson, Martha Minow and Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Marjorie Garber and Susan Suleiman. It explores such questions as: What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literary and other fields engaged in cultural work have in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? and What...
This volume of presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities. It brings together such leading figures as ...
This text examines symptoms of cultural discomfort, the troubles lurking in pleasures. The author argues that the symptoms of culture are the anxieties that underlie modern life: the instability of gender roles, the mysteries of female sexuality, the enigma of authority, the desire for greatness in ourselves and our heroes.
This text examines symptoms of cultural discomfort, the troubles lurking in pleasures. The author argues that the symptoms of culture are the anxietie...
The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts and ghost writing. Marjorie Garber begins with an examination of the authorship debate surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghostwritten. Garber asks what is at stake in the imputation that Shakespeare did not write the plays and argues that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy.
The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts and ghost writing. Marjorie Garber begins with an examination of the authorship debate surrounding Sha...
Drawing upon the work of anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists, the author examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns - coming of age - in Shakespeare's plays. Citing examples from virtually the entire Shakespeare canon, she pays particular attention to the way his characters grow and change at points of personal crisis. Among the crises Garber discusses are: separation from parents or siblings in preparation for taking a lover or spouse; the use of names and nicknames as a sign of individual exploits or status; virginity, sexual initiation and the acceptance of sexual...
Drawing upon the work of anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists, the author examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns - coming of...
