Quotation marks

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. (quotation Marks) -- Fashionable -- Try-works -- Make-work -- Sequels -- Vegetable Love -- A Case Of Mstaken Identity -- Moniker -- Macguffin Shakespeare -- Historical Correctness : The Use And Abuse Of History For Literature -- The Jane Austen Syndrome -- Fatal Cleopatra -- Compassion -- Who Owns Human Nature? Marjorie Garber. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [273]-296) And Index. Quotation marks -- Fashionable -- Try-works -- Make-work -- Sequels -- Vegetable love -- A case of mistaken identity -- Moniker -- McGuffin Shakespeare -- Historical correctness -- The Jane Austen syndrome -- Fatal Cleopatra -- Compassion -- Who owns "human nature"? In this new book of essays, the author turns to the history of words, great writers, everyday speech, and the unspeaking, painted image to spin tales about the way we live