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The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (Paperback)
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The Muses on Their Lunch Hour (Paperback)
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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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