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By David Suchoff, Mary Rhiel
June 06, 1996
The Seductions of Biography is an important volume which sheds new light on a flourishing literary form, the biography. In postmodern culture, new methods and intentions emerge, as well as new obstacles, towards our understanding of biography as a genre. This book provides a thorough exploration ...
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By Marjorie Garber, Paul B. Franklin, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
April 10, 1997
What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of ...
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By Carla Mazzio, Douglas Trevor
September 14, 2000
First published in 2000. Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question. Through a synthesis of historicism and ...
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By Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
November 09, 1995
When the American Bar Association recreated the trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg on the fortieth anniversary of their execution, the jury acquitted the "mock Rosenbergs," finding that in today's courts they would not have been convicted of espionage. The 1950s trial of the Rosenbergs on charges ...
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By Marjorie Garber, Beatrice Hanssen, Rebecca L. Walkowitz
August 31, 2000
What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are collected here bring the particularities of ...
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By Marjorie Garber, Rebecca Walkowitz
September 09, 1999
One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today....
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By Judith Ryan, Alfred Thomas
September 18, 2003
In Cultures of Forgery, leading literary studies and cultural studies scholars examine the double meaning of the word "forge"-to create or to form, on the one hand, and to make falsely, on the other....
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By Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, Rebecca Walkowitz
November 25, 1993
Coverage of such major news events as the Gulf War, the AIDS epidemic and the William Kennedy Smith rape trial is analysed by contributors who explore the languages of word and image that produce current events as spectacle....