Shakespeare's Ghost Writers
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality is a nonfiction book written by Marjorie Garber and was originally published by Methuen Publishing in 1987.[1][2][3][4][5]
Synopsis[edit]
This book decentralizes Shakespeare from his normally central position in the literary tradition. Instead the book traces the ubiquity and influence of Shakespeare's text on our culture in post-modern England and America, as well as Shakespeare's textual effect on some influential minds of the twentieth century. In this way, it says, Shakespeare or Shakespeare's ghost metaphorically haunts us.[1][2]
Reception[edit]
This book has received positive reviews.
Margreta de Grazia writing for the Shakespeare Quarterly says: "Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers" is a brave new book, for in justifying another new book about Shakespeare, it has attempted nothing less than to make literature newly consequential."[1]
Jonathan Gil Harris, who wrote the book entitled Shakespeare and Literary Theory says: "[Garber's] book 'Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers'...remains the most thoughtful and thought-provoking account of Shakespeare’s ‘uncanny causality’ and the ways in which theorists, even when they criticize canonical authority, repeatedly turn to Shakespeare to lend authority to their critique. Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers was the first sustained study of ‘Shakespearean theory’; it remains the best."[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c De Grazia, Margreta (1989). "Reviewed work: Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality., Marjorie Garber". Shakespeare Quarterly. 40 (3): 345–348. doi:10.2307/2870733. JSTOR 2870733.
- ^ a b Edwards, Philip (1990). "Reviewed work: Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality, Marjorie Garber; Shakespeare and His Social Context: Essays in Osmotic Knowledge and Literary Interpretation, Margaret Loftus Ranald". The Yearbook of English Studies. 20: 253–255. doi:10.2307/3507558. JSTOR 3507558.
- ^ White, R. S. "Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality." (1990). In S. Wells (Ed.), Shakespeare Survey pp. 170-171 Critical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CCOL0521380340.014. PDF download available.
- ^ Marsh, Derick R. C. (1989). "Reviews". Notes and Queries. 36 (2): 235–236. doi:10.1093/nq/36-2-235.
- ^ Rodríguez Sutil, C. (2013). Reseña de la obra de Marjorie Garber: "Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality." Clínica e Investigación Relacional (translation: Clinical and Relational Research [1]), 7 (3): 626‐630. Free PDF download.
- ^ Harris, Johnathan Gil (October 10, 2010). Shakespeare and Literary Theory. Oxford University Press. p. 211. ISBN 9780199573387.
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Further reading[edit]
- 'Shakespeare and Modern Culture.' By Marjorie Garber. (December 10, 2008). New York Times.
- Sword, Helen (1999). "Modernist Hauntology: James Joyce, Hester Dowden, and Shakespeare's Ghost". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. 41 (2): 180–201. JSTOR 40755287.
- Cameron, David (January 4, 2016). "After 400 years, Bard remains a modern voice". Miami Herald. Retrieved July 4, 2022.