LEADER 03032nam 2200505 450 001 9910154640303321 005 20211005222317.0 010 $a0-8232-7374-1 010 $a0-8232-7376-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000908889 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4681119 035 $a(OCoLC)961152908 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse52705 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6166634 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6644646 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6644646 035 $a(OCoLC)964410686 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000908889 100 $a20201211d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Muses on their lunch hour /$fMarjorie Garber 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York :$cFordham University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (216 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8232-7372-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine 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. 330 $a"As a break from their ordained labors, what might the Muses today do on their lunch hour? This collection of witty, shrewd, and imaginative essays addresses interdisciplinary topics that range widely from Shakespeare, to psychoanalysis, to the practice of higher education today. With the ease born of deep knowledge, Marjorie Garber moves from comical journalistic quirks ("Fig Leaves") to the curious return of myth and ritual in the theories of evolutionary psychologists ("Ovid, Now and Then"). Two themes emerge consistently in Garber's latest exploration of symptoms of culture. The first is that to predict the "next big thing" in literary studies we should look back at ideas and practices set aside by a previous generation of critics. In the past several decades we have seen the reemergence of--for example--textual editing, biography, character criticism, aesthetics, and philology as "hot" new areas for critical intervention. The second theme expands on this observation, making the case for "cultural forgetting" as the way the arts and humanities renew themselves, both within fields and across them. Although she is never represented in traditional paintings or poetry, a missing Muse--we can call her Amnesia--turns out to be a key figure for the creation of theory and criticism in the arts. "--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aAmerican essays 615 0$aAmerican essays. 676 $a814.54 700 $aGarber$b Marjorie B.$0155358 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154640303321 996 $aThe Muses on their lunch hour$92263957 997 $aUNINA