Quotation Marks by Marjorie Garber (English) Paperback Book

Description: Quotation Marks by Marjorie Garber 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Majorie Garbers essays are wonderful, witty, and provocative pieces of cultural criticism. This collection includes pieces on Jane Austen Syndrome, on forgery, on sequels (think George "Dubya"), on anachronism ("historical correctness"), on gender and language, and one lavishly illustrated essay on the sexual lives of inanimate objects. Back Cover In this new book of essays, brilliant cultural critic Marjorie Garber turns to the history of words, great writers, everyday speech, and the painted image to spin tales about the way we live. Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marks considers, among other subjects, how we depend on the most quotable men and women in history to bolster what we have to say. What does morality have to do with style? Whats the difference between work and work? What do we admire and what do we imitate, and what does either have to do with love? Why are sequels so enticing, she asks? Reading these essays is to experience the pleasure of watching a remarkable critic grapple with the curious and the everyday, and make both speak to the question between the quotation marks: Who are we now? Author Biography 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. Table of Contents 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 Review "...an erudite and absorbing introduction to the art of the essay and present-day literary thought." -- Gene Shaw, Library Journal"The nature of quotations, fashion, work, sequels, sexuality, the abbreviation Ms., Monica Lewinsky, textural editing in Shakespeare, literature, and human nature are all discussed in this widely varied group of essays by Garber (English, Harvard; Sex and Real Estate). Garber is especially discerning in her exploration of the medias failure to discuss Lewinskys Jewishness, paintings of vegetables and their sexual symbolism, and the relationship between literary criticism and cultural studies, and her close reading of Shakespeare includes a fine understanding of how editing has continually adapted the meaning of the literature for each generation. Garbers evenhanded, friendly tone makes this an erudite and absorbing introduction to the art of the essay and present-day literary thought. Recommended for literature collections. - Library Journale.""Witty, wide-ranging, vigilant and fresh, Marjorie Garber pleasures the reading intellect on every page. The essays in Quotation Marks give good weight, clarifying our late-modern moment even as they beguile us." -- Sven Birkerts, author of The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age"The nature of quotations, fashion, work, sequels, sexuality, the abbreviation Ms., Monica Lewinsky, textural editing in Shakespeare, literature, and human nature are all discussed in this widely varied group of essays by Garber (English, Harvard; Sex and Real Estate). Garber is especially discerning in her exploration of the medias failure to discuss Lewinskys Jewishness, paintings of vegetables and their sexual symbolism, and the relationship between literary criticism and cultural studies, and her close reading of Shakespeare includes a fine understanding of how editing has continually adapted the meaning of the literature for each generation. Garbers evenhanded, friendly tone makes this an erudite and absorbing introduction to the art of the essay and present-day literary thought. Recommended for literature collections. - Library Journal." Details ISBN0415937469 Short Title QUOTATION MARKS Language English ISBN-10 0415937469 ISBN-13 9780415937467 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 801.95 Year 2002 Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9780415937467 AU Release Date 2002-11-08 NZ Release Date 2002-11-08 UK Release Date 2002-11-08 Author Marjorie Garber Pages 328 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Publication Date 2002-11-08 Alternative 9780415937450 Illustrations 8 Illustrations, color Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134433901;

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