These angry lectures about the ethics of the human-animal relationship were given at Princeton, ostensibly by a novelist named Elizabeth Costello; this volume also includes commentary on Coetzee's ideas by Marjorie Garber, Peter Singer, Windy Doniger, and Barbara Smuts.
A study of bisexuality as an erotic, social and cultural phenomenon, integrating sociological and psychological insights with a close analysis of literature, film and popular culture.
"Vested Interests" focuses on the relationship between the aesthetic and the existential, from Shakespeare to Peter Pan and "M. Butterfly", from transsexual surgery and societies for transvestites and transsexuals, to Madonna, Michael Jackson, and even Elvis. Garber establishes that transvestism, far from being a marginal and socially deviant ...
What is the role of the arts in American culture? Is art an essential element? If so, how should we support it? Today, as in the past, artists need the funding, approval, and friendship of patrons whether they are individuals, corporations, governments, or nonprofit foundations. But as "Patronizing the Arts" shows, these relationships can be ...
In this witty, learned, and scrupulously researched book, Marjorie Garber examines bisexuality and its many modes through a dazzling variety of critical lenses: cultural, scientific, literary, and psychological. Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life is a monumental inquiry into what 'normal' might mean, and just how difficult it is to ...
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 we think about the places where we hang our hats. Print features. NPR sponsorship.
The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts and ghost writing. Marjorie Garber begins with an examination of the authorship debate surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghostwritten. Garber asks what is at stake in the imputation that "Shakespeare" did not write the plays and argues that the plays themselves ...
From its beginning, the story of Medusa has fascinated and terrified listeners and readers--for what is most compelling in this myth is Medusa's intrinsic doubleness: the woman who could turn a careless onloker to stone has become a symbol of all that is irresistable. The Medusa Reader is the first major anthology of primary and critical material ...
The 1950s trial of the Rosenbergs on charges of Atomic Spying" and stealing the secrets of the Atomic bomb" was a major event of Cold War America, galvanizing public opinion on all sides of the question. Had the Rosenbergs in fact passed atomic secrets on to the Russians, secrets so vital that they enabled the Soviet Union to build its own ...
This work by a professor of English at Harvard contains three chapters that probe aspects of the state of academics. She discusses the line between professional and amateur intellectuals, competition in academics, and the use of jargon in academic writing.
Is America a religious nation? A nation of many religions? Is there an American religion? One Nation Under God is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today. Drawing on the extraordinary diversity of America's cultures, this gathering of distinguished scholars considers such subjects as the nature of public ...
With close attention to the nuances of language, tone, metaphor and figure, Media Spectacles brings together critics from general fields to examine a series of remarkable news and media spectacles. Sixteen contributors explore the languages of word and image that produce current events as spectacle, reading the world in which we live through the ...
An examination of the human devotion to dogs and what it can reveal about people. The author asks whether the preoccupation with pedigrees reflects snobbery, nationalism and other forms of cultural anxiety, and looks at dogs as emblems of mourning and loss.
Marjorie Garber's collection of 14 essays considers aspects of language that include forays into topics such Monica Lewinsky, the novels of Jane Austen, and the way paintings of vegetables are related to sexuality.
Drawing upon the work of anthropologists, psychologists and sociologists, 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 ...
This volume of new work presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. It brings together such leading figures as Sacvan Bercovitch and Helen Vendler, Anthony Appiah and Barbara Johnson, Seyla Benhabib and Norman Bryson, Martha Minow and Henry Louis Gates,Jr, Marjorie Garber and Susan Suleiman and ...
The title of this collection, "Profiling Shakespeare", is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from his time to our own. They also show the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare's admirers and ...
Based on a conference held at the Center for Literary Studies at Harvard University, this collection of essays from the leading scholars in literature, philosophy, politics, and medicine casts 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 ...
This volume of new work presents an account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. It brings together such leading figures as Sacvan Bercovitch and Helen Vendler, Anthony Appiah and Barbara Johnson, Seyla Benhabib and Norman Bryson, Martha Minow and Henry Louis Gates,Jr, Marjorie Garber and Susan Suleiman
This wide-ranging intellectual assessment of 20th-century American culture includes discussions of anti-Semitism in the media, the all-male Christian "Promise Keepers" organization, changing evolutionary theory, and the notion of "greatness" as it relates to Richard Nixon, "The Wizard of Oz", and other substantial figures on the cultural landscape ...
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 will help both the academic ...
"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 than impeccable small contributions to edifices ...
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