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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.

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Fordham University Press

Date de parution

01 décembre 2016

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T h e M u s e s o n T h e i r L u n c h H o u r

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The Muses on Their Lunch Hour

Marjorie Garber

f o r d h a m u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s New York 2017

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Names: Garber, Marjorie B., author. Title: The Muses on their lunch hour / Marjorie Garber. Description: First edition. | New York : Fordham University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2016027233 | ISBN 9780823273720 (hardback) | ISBN 9780823273737 (paper) Subjects: | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / General. | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. | EDUCATION / Higher. Classiﬁcation: LCC AC8.5 .G37 2017 | DDC 814/.54 —dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016027233

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Acknowledgments

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Preface: The Muses on Their Lunch Hour 1. Asking Literary Questions 2. Ovid, Now and Then 3. Over the Inﬂuence 4. FLigeaves 5. BaggaSgcereening 6.IdentitTyheft7. Czech Mates: When Shakespeare Met Kafka 8.OccuSpyhakespeare9. Shakespea4r5e1

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a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s

It is a pleasure to acknowledge the many friends and colleagues who have helped me at various stages of the composition and editing of these essays. Bill Germano was once again a marvelous reader, critic, and coc-onspirator in the shaping of individual pieces and of the book as a whole. I owe him not only my warmest thanks but also the best dinner we can ﬁnd. William Ira Bennett generously read a number of the essays, and made many valu-able suggestions that have been incorporated into the text. Jonathan Culler offered essential advice and encouragement at a crucial time. Calista McRae, Sabrina Sadique, and Kailey Bennett provided key editorial assistance at various stages of manuscript preparation. My editor at Fordham University Press, Tom Lay, has been unfailingly helpful and responsive, as have Eric Newman, Nancy Rapoport, and others at Fordham. I thank them for all their interest and attention to detail. A few essays have been previously published, and I am grateful to the editors of the publications where they ﬁrst appeared for their excellent com-ments and meticulous editing: to Tom Mitchell and Jay Williams atCritical Inquiryfor “Ovid, Now and Then” (Critical Inquiry40, no. 1, Autumn 2013) and “Over the Inﬂuence” (Critical Inquiry42, no. 4, Summer 2016); Renate Ferro, Mieke Bal, and Michelle Williams Gamaker, the editors ofSaying It(London: Occasional Papers, 2012) for “Baggage Screening.” “Asking Lit-erary Questions” ﬁrst appeared in myManifesto for Literary Studies(Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003); my thanks to the Simpson Center for the Humanities for permission to reprint it here. This book is dedicated to the memory of Helen Tartar, a remarkable editor and supporter of the humanities, with whom I initially mapped out the topics and contents of this collection. Helen’s untimely death was a profound loss to the ﬁeld, to the profession, and to her innumerable friends and admirers. It was an honor, and a gift, to have worked with her.

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