Quotation MarksRoutledge, 6 maj 2016 - 328 sidor Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marks considers, among other subjects, how we depend upon the most quotable men and women in history, using great writers to bolster what we ourselves have to say. The entertaining turns and reversals of Marjorie Garber's arguments offer the rare pleasure of a true essayist. |
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Preface | 1 |
1 Quotation Marks | 7 |
2 Fashionable | 33 |
3 TryWorks | 47 |
4 MakeWork | 59 |
5 Sequels | 73 |
6 Vegetable Love | 83 |
7 A Case of Mstaken Identity | 105 |
9 MacGuffin Shakespeare | 147 |
10 Historical Correctness | 177 |
11 The Jane Austen Syndrome | 199 |
12 Fatal Cleopatra | 211 |
13 Compassion | 231 |
14 Who Owns Human Nature? | 243 |
Notes | 273 |
| 297 | |
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