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Marjorie Garber
The untold story of Shakespeare's profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group
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First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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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…
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When we speak of the English Renaissance, what is it that we are naming? What are we recognizing as reborn? The essays in this collection from the English Institute demonstrate…
Combining literary and historical tidbits with witty social insight, Dog Love explains everything from why we often admire presidential pets more than their owners to why our attachment to dogs…
Contains lively, witty essays, written in an accessible style, concrete and down-to-earth, sensible but often contrarian, and with a wide range of cultural references, so that almost any reader will…
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Presents an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. This title asks what is at stake in the imputation that…
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Marjorie Garber examines the authorship debate surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghostwritten.
Drawing on the work of anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists, Garber examines the rites of passage and maturation patterns in Shakespeare’s plays.
Garber examines bisexuality and its many modes through a dazzling variety of critical lenses: cultural, scientific, literary, and psychological.
In this collection of essays, Marjorie Garber turns to the history of words, great writers, everyday speech, and the painted image to spin tales about the way we live.
Shows the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare’s admirers and dedicated scholars have pieced together a vision of the playwright, whether as…
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
In this witty and scrupulously researched book, Garber examines bisexuality through a variety of critical lenses–cultural, literal, and psychological. She explores what normal is, and points out how difficult it…
Witty, informative, and thought-provoking, this study ranges through literature, art, film, journalism, criticism, and the hard evidence of everyday experience to provide an acute analysis of the ways in which…
A manifesto for literary studies that intends to remind us of the specificity of what it means to ask literary questions, and the pleasure of thinking through and with literature.
Contains essays, which show the outline of a Shakespeare, the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare’s admirers and dedicated scholars have pieced…
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.
In this deep and engaging meditation on the usefulness and uselessness of reading in the digital age, Harvard English professor Garber aims to reclaim literature from the periphery of our…
A spirited, engaging investigation into the concept of character, an enduring human obsession in literature, psychology, politics, and everyday life.
What is character ?
Since at least Aristotle’s time, philosophers…
As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range…
Explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. This title discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in debates about the humanities: the relation between amateurs and…
What is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? This book describes the history of patronage, and…
Marjorie B Garber
From one of the world’s premier Shakespeare scholars and author of Shakespeare After All comes a magisterial new study that delves into 10 plays to explore the interrelationship between Shakespeare…
Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half of the 20th century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays, in chronological sequence.
The 1950s trial of the Rosenburgs on charges of ‘atomic spying’ came to stand in many minds for the paranoia of the Cold War. Many of the issues are still…
A consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Piety and popular culture, public space and private, the secular and the sacred all converge in America’s religious experience.
A consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Peity and popular culture, public space and private, the secular and the sacred all converge in America’s religious experience.
The Medusa Reader is the first major anthology of primary and critical material on this enigmatic figure. Collecting all the essential passages and commentary of Medusa from classical times to…
Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word…
Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analyzed by contributors who explore the languages of word…
This collection of essays from the leading scholars in literature, philosophy, politics, and medicine casts new light on the range of ethical debates of today.
This presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. Brings together leading figures such as Sacvan Bercovitch, Helen Vendler, Anthony Appiah, Norman Bryson…
