03032nam 2200505 450 991015464030332120211005222317.00-8232-7374-10-8232-7376-8(CKB)3710000000908889(MiAaPQ)EBC4681119(OCoLC)961152908(MdBmJHUP)muse52705(MiAaPQ)EBC6166634(MiAaPQ)EBC6644646(Au-PeEL)EBL6644646(OCoLC)964410686(EXLCZ)99371000000090888920201211d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe Muses on their lunch hour /Marjorie GarberFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,[2017]©20171 online resource (216 pages)Includes index.0-8232-7372-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Machine generated contents note: Preface: The Muses on Their Lunch Hour -- Asking Literary Questions -- Ovid, Now and Then -- Over the Influence -- Fig Leaves -- In a Nutshell -- Shakespeare 451 -- Occupy Shakespeare -- Czech Mates: When Shakespeare Met Kafka -- On Shakesperience: some reminiscences in lieu of a postscript."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. "--Provided by publisher.American essaysAmerican essays.814.54Garber Marjorie B.155358MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154640303321The Muses on their lunch hour2263957UNINA