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English

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2012

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Marjorie Garber

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2012

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Date de parution

01 juin 2012

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9780823242078

Langue

English

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In Loaded Words the inimitable literary and cultural critic Marjorie Garber invites readers to join her in a rigorous and exuberant exploration of language. What links the pieces included in this vibrant new collection is the author’s contention that all words are inescapably loaded—that is, highly charged, explosive, substantial, intoxicating, fruitful, and overbrimming—and that such loading is what makes language matter.
Garber casts her keen eye on terms from knowledge, belief, madness, interruption, genius, and celebrity to humanities, general education, and academia. Included here are an array of stirring essays, from the title piece, with its demonstration of the importance of language to our thinking about the world; to the superb “Mad Lib,” on the concept of madness from Mad magazine to debates between Foucault and Derrida; to pieces on Shakespeare, “the most culturally loaded name of our time,” and the Renaissance.
With its wide range of cultural references and engaging style coupled with fresh intellectual inquiry, Loaded Words will draw in and enchant scholars, students, and general readers alike.

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Publié par

Fordham University Press

Date de parution

01 juin 2012

EAN13

9780823242078

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

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Loaded Words

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Contents

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Acknowledgments

Loaded Questions: An Introduction Loaded Words Mad Lib A Tale of ThreeHamlets; or, Repetition and Revenge Shakespeare in Slow Motion The Shakespeare Brand Translating F. O. Matthiessen Good to Think With The Marvel of Peru Third-Person Interruption Our Genius Problem Dig It: Looking for Fame in All the Wrong Places Anatomy of a Honey Trap The Gypsy Scholar and the Scholar Gypsy Radical Numbers After the Humanities

Notes Index

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Acknowledgments

Several essays in this collection have been previously published in jour-nals and collections. My gratitude to the following for their permission to reprint:Critical Inquiry(for ‘‘Loaded Words’’),The Atlantic(for ‘‘Our Genius Problem’’),Profession(for ‘‘Good to Think With’’ and ‘‘Shake-speare in Slow Motion’’),Foreign Policy(for ‘‘Anatomy of a Honey Trap,’’PMLA(for ‘‘Dig It: Looking for Fame in All the Wrong Places’’), Raritan(for ‘‘Translating F. O. Matthiessen’’), Peter Lang publishers (for ‘‘Third-Person Interruption’’), Beacon Press (for ‘‘The Marvel of Peru’’) andShakespeare Quarterly(for ‘‘A Tale of ThreeHamlets’’). Some of the remaining pieces, published here for the ﬁrst time, were written initially for audiences at Arizona State University (‘‘After the Humanities’’), the University of Buffalo (‘‘Mad Lib’’), Wellesley College (‘‘Shakespeare and Character’’), and Harvard University (‘‘Radical Education’’). I am grate-ful to those friends and colleagues who invited me to speculate on so broad and intriguing a range of topics, especially John Bender, Joseph Boone, David Hillman, Michael Holquist, Sally Kitch, Yu Jin Ko, Carla Mazzio, Lino Pertile, John Stauffer, and Nancy Vickers. My warm thanks as well to William Germano, whose advice, encouragement, and expert eye and ear have been invaluable; to Helen Tartar and Tom Lay of Fordham University Press; and to Sol Kim Bentley and Alex Ray-mond, who kindly helped to prepare this manuscript for publication.

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