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Symptoms of culture / Marjorie Garber.
- Title
- Symptoms of culture / Marjorie Garber.
- Author
- Garber, Marjorie B.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | CB430 .G37 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 273 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- 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 concerns over fake orgasms to our worries about Great Books reading lists, from wanting God on our side at sports contests to wanting Shakespeare on our side whenever we want to sound important, we are a walking case of symptoms. Assessing with wry detachment our tics and obsessions, Symptoms of Culture unpacks the questions that lie beneath our everyday uncertainties.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-262) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- American dreams -- 1. Greatness. -- 2. Two-point conversion. -- 3. Gentility. -- 4. Cinema scopes: evolution, media, and the law. -- 5. Jell-O. -- Classic signs. 6. Character assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill, and JFK. -- 7. Shakespeare as fetish. -- 8. Roman numerals. -- 9. Second-best bed. -- 10. I'll have what she's having.
- ISBN
- 0415918596 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
- 041591860X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^97040995^
- OCLC
- 37782964
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library