Quotation Marks [Paperback]

Written with characteristic verve, Quotation Marksconsiders, 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.Marjorie Garberis Willam R Kenan Jr Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard. Her books Symptoms of Culture, Vested Interests, and Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeare available in paperback from Routledge. Her most recent books are Sex and Real Estateand Academic Instincts.