Research Catalog
The Muses on their lunch hour
- Title
- The Muses on their lunch hour / Marjorie Garber.
- Author
- Garber, Marjorie B.
- Publication
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 197 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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 widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice of higher education today. With the ease born of deep knowledge, Marjorie Garber moves from comical journalistic quirks ("Fig Leaves") to the curious return of myth and ritual in the theories of evolutionary psychologists ("Ovid, Now and Then"). Two themes emerge consistently in Garber's latest exploration of symptoms of culture. The first is that to predict the "next big thing" in literary studies we should look back at ideas and practices set aside by a previous generation of critics. In the past several decades we have seen the reemergence of--for example--textual editing, biography, character criticism, aesthetics, and philology as "hot" new areas for critical intervention. The second theme expands on this observation, making the case for "cultural forgetting" as the way the arts and humanities renew themselves, both within fields and across them. Although she is never represented in traditional paintings or poetry, a missing Muse--we can call her Amnesia--turns out to be a key figure for the creation of theory and criticism in the arts."--
- Uniform Title
- Essays. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Essays.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-190) and index.
- Contents
- Preface: The muses on their lunch hour -- Asking literary questions -- Ovid, now and then -- Over the influence -- Fig leaves -- Baggage screening -- Identity theft -- Czech mates: when Shakespeare met Kafka -- Occupy Shakespeare -- Shakespeare 451.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-2673
- ISBN
- 9780823273720
- 0823273725
- 0823273733
- 9780823273737
- 9780823273737 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016027233
- OCLC
- 953918937
- Author
- Garber, Marjorie B., author.
- Title
- The Muses on their lunch hour / Marjorie Garber.
- Publisher
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-190) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: HARVARD UNIVERSITY. PREV. PUB. ESSAYS ON CULTURAL FORGETTING.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9780823273744
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-2673