The Use and Abuse of Literature - Marjorie Garber [162]
7. Roland Barthes, Roland Barthes, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977), 174–75.
8. Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium Eater (London: W. Scott, 1886), 92–93.
9. Joel J. Brattin, “Dickens and Serial Publication,” PBS, 2003, www.pbs.org.
10. Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), 7.
11. Ibid., 23–24.
12. Edward. W. Said, Beginnings: Intention and Method (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975, 1985), 6.
13. Ibid., xii.
14. Ibid., 380.
15. Ibid., xiii.
16. Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign and Play in the Human Sciences,” in Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 292–93.
17. William James, Principles of Psychology (New York: Henry Holt, 1890), 403–4.
18. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936), in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), 241.
19. Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, 593.
20. Sigmund Freud, “Analysis Terminable and Interminable,” vol. 23, Standard Edition, 219.
21. Ibid., 219–20.
22. Ibid., 236.
23. Ibid.
24. George Orwell, Animal Farm (1946) (New York: Harcourt Brace, 2003), 18.
25. Ibid., 48.
26. Ibid., 63.
27. Ibid., 75.
28. Ibid., 92.
29. E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web (1952) (New York: HarperCollins, 1980), 80–81.
30. Orwell, Animal Farm, 97.
31. White, Charlotte’s Web, 183.
32. Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel,” in Labyrinths: Selected Short Stories and Other Writings, trans. James E. Irby (New York: New Directions, 1964), 51, 58.
33. André Maurois, preface to Borges, Labyrinths, xviii.
34. Borges, Labyrinths, 249.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, and chair of the Program in Dramatic Arts. She has served as director of the Humanities Center at Harvard, chair of the department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. A member of the Board of Directors of the American Council of Learned Societies and a trustee of the English Institute, she is the former president of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, and a continuing member of its board. She has published fifteen books and edited seven collections of essays on topics from Shakespeare to literary and cultural theory to the arts and intellectual life. Shakespeare After All received the 2005 Christian Gauss Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Newsweek magazine chose Shakespeare After All as one of the five best nonfiction books of 2004, and praised it as the “indispensable introduction to an indispensable writer … Garber’s is the most exhilarating seminar room you’ll ever enter.”
Her previous book from Pantheon is Shakespeare and Modern Culture. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Use and Abuse
2. The Pleasures of the Canon
3. What Isn’t Literature
4. What’s Love Got to Do with It?
5. So You Want to Read a Poem
6. Why Literature Is Always Contemporary
7. On Truth and Lie in a Literary Sense
8. Mixed Metaphors
9. The Impossibility of Closure
Notes
About the Author