Quotation Marks

Informationen zum Autor Marjorie Garber is Willam R Kenan Jr Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard. Her books Symptoms of Culture , Vested Interests , and Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life are available in paperback from Routledge. Her most recent books are Sex and Real Estate and Academic Instincts . Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Majorie Garber's essays are wonderful, witty, and provocative pieces of cultural criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Quotation Marks Try-Works (Literary Criticism in an Age of Cultural Studies) Make-Work (Inventing Work) Sequels Sexing the Squash/Vegetable Love (Rickus) A Case of Mstaken Identity Historical Correctness Moniker Plastics Exclamation Points [Good Point! On the Morality of Punctuation] MacGuffin Shakespeare The Jane Austen Syndrome Fatal Cleopatra

Product details

• Authors: Majorie Garber, Marjorie Garber, Garber Marjorie
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2002
• EAN: 9780415937467
• ISBN: 978-0-415-93746-7
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Sociolinguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Anthologies: general, Literary theory, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literature: history and criticism