Beginning with the bold claim, ''There can be no culture without the transvestite, '' Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it
Beginning with the bold claim, ''There can be no culture without the transvestite, '' Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dr...
Is America a religious nation? A nation of many nations? Is there an American religion? This text is a consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.
Is America a religious nation? A nation of many nations? Is there an American religion? This text is a consideration of how religion manifests itself ...
Marjorie B. Garber Rebecca L. Walkowitz Beatrice Hanssen
Based on a conference held at the Center for Literary Studies at Harvard University, this collection of essays from scholars in literature, philosophy, politics, and medicine seeks to shed new light on the wide range of ethical debates raging today; from bioethics and the ethics of political action to the ethics of reading and making distinctions between morality and ethics.
Based on a conference held at the Center for Literary Studies at Harvard University, this collection of essays from scholars in literature, philosophy...
Marjorie B. Garber Rebecca L. Walkowitz Beatrice Hanssen
What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of their disciplines and training to a vital complex of questions.
What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and politi...
"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex." -Gore Vidal
"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed t...
Higher education relies on the philanthropy of many individuals to sustain and to expand its intellectual endeavors at home and abroad. Motivations for philanthropy to higher education coalesce around a myriad of factors and these motivations encompass the scope of this work. What is described in the following chapters should help both the academic researcher and casual reader understand the dynamics of philanthropic commitment and how history, biography, institutional elements and religion all play decidedly unique roles. How to interpret these roles to replicate individual generosity will...
Higher education relies on the philanthropy of many individuals to sustain and to expand its intellectual endeavors at home and abroad. Motivations fo...
Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marks considers, among other subjects, how we depend upon the most quotable men and women in history, using great writers to bolster what we ourselves have to say. The entertaining turns and reversals of Marjorie Garber's arguments offer the rare pleasure of a true essayist.
Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marks considers, among other subjects, how we depend upon the most quotable men and women in his...
In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates...
In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, ...
When we speak of the English Renaissance, what is it that we are naming, what are we recognizing reborn? As the essays in this latest collection from the English Institute demonstrate, our basic notions of the period have themselves been reconceived. In Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce, seven critics defamiliarize the images of the Renaissance -to permit the repressed to return, to acknowledge the presence of the unassimilable ghost the mark of difference of an age that is at once self and 'other'.-
John Hollander discovers a -hidden undersong- in the Spenserian lyric, while...
When we speak of the English Renaissance, what is it that we are naming, what are we recognizing reborn? As the essays in this latest collection fr...
