Description
Book SynopsisContains lively, witty essays, written in an accessible style, concrete and down-to-earth, sensible but often contrarian, and with a wide range of cultural references, so that almost any reader will feel that he or she is learning something.
Trade Review"Self-styled 'peripatetic writer,' Harvard Shakespearean, and culture critic Garber collects loosely connected but fascinating essays on a range of themes." -Publishers Weekly
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Loaded Questions Part I 1 Loaded Words 2 Good to Think With 3 Mad Lib 4 Third Person Interruption 5 Our Genius Problem 6 Anatomy of a Honey Trap 7 Dig It: Searching for Fame in All the Wrong Places Part II 8 Shakespeare in Slow Motion 9 Character Flaws 10 The Marvel of Peru 11 Translating F.O. Matthiessen 12 The Shakespeare Brand Part III 13 After the Humanities 14 The Gypsy Scholar and the Scholar Gypsy 15 Radical Numbers 16 General Education
