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71 produkter
Shakespeare After All
Häftad, 2005
289 kr
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A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie …
Manifesto for Literary Studies
E-bok, 2011
399 kr
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" 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 …
Manifesto for Literary Studies
Häftad, 2004
353 kr
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"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 …
Dream in Shakespeare
From Metaphor to Metamorphosis
Häftad, 2013
231 kr
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Dream is a central image for Shakespeare, encompassing at once the terrors of the irrational and the creative powers of the imagination—one's deepest fears and highest aspirations. Used in the early plays as a verbal or structural device, dream becomes, in the tragedies and late romances, a …
Shakespeare in Bloomsbury
Inbunden, 2023
379 kr
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The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group “A spirited dance of minds.”—Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they …
Shakespeare in Bloomsbury
Häftad, 2025
239 kr
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The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group “A spirited dance of minds.”—Chris Vognar, Boston Globe For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they …
Treacherous Secret Agent
How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare
Inbunden, 2026
315 kr
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A world-renowned critic’s haunting and deeply researched account of the subversive acts of literary revenge performed during the Red Scare hearings of the 1950sIn the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations led by …
Shakespeare and Modern Culture
E-bok, 2008
139 kr
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From one of the world''s premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, …
Use and Abuse of Literature
E-bok, 2011
87 kr
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As defining as Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism, Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education were to the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, respectively, Marjorie Garber’s The Use and Abuse of Literature is to our times. Even as the decline of the …
Shakespeare After All
E-bok, 2008
104 kr
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A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie …
Sex and Real Estate
Why We Love Houses
E-bok, 2010
76 kr
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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 …
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers
Literature as Uncanny Causality
Häftad, 2010
359 kr
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The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts – and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and …
Medusa Reader
Av Marjorie Garber, Nancy J. Vickers
Inbunden, 2003
2886 kr
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Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.
Medusa Reader
Av Marjorie Garber, Nancy J. Vickers
Häftad, 2003
794 kr
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Ranging from classical times to pop culture, this collection will appeal to art historians, feminists, classicists, cultural critics, and anyone interested in mythology.
Media Spectacles
Av Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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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 and image that produce current events as spectacle.
Secret Agents
The Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism and Fifties America
Av Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
Häftad, 1995
607 kr
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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 …
Field Work
Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies
Av Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2886 kr
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What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of work, …
Field Work
Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies
Av Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
727 kr
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What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of work, …
Symptoms of Culture
Inbunden, 1998
1596 kr
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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. From concern over fake orgasms to our worries about Great Books reading lists, from …
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers
Literature As Uncanny Causality
Häftad, 1997
543 kr
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The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written.Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and …
Coming of Age in Shakespeare
Häftad, 1997
744 kr
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Marjorie Garber 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 …
Vested Interests
Cross-dressing and Cultural Anxiety
Häftad, 1997
633 kr
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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. Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our …
One Nation Under God?
Religion and American Culture
Av Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
Inbunden, 1999
2510 kr
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One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.
One Nation Under God?
Religion and American Culture
Av Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
Häftad, 1999
618 kr
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One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.
Turn to Ethics
Av Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
2510 kr
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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 …
Turn to Ethics
Av Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
633 kr
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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 …
Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life
Häftad, 2000
894 kr
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"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
Quotation Marks
Häftad, 2002
711 kr
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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 …
