Product Description: These days, the margins have become a powerful position from which to mount a critique of contemporary society, culture, and text. From gay and lesbian studies to postcolonial or "subaltern" criticism, formerly marginalized perspectives have brought provocative new insights into many fields of inquiry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Like previous volumes, TEXT 8 stresses interdisciplinary coverage and problems of theory. Highlights of the opening section on theoretical matters include Philip Gossett's "Knowing the Score: Italian Opera as Work and Play"; the essays from the Society for Textual Scholarship conference session on "Fredson Bowers's Wider Influence," which include David Vander Meulen on Bowers and Studies in Bibliography, Conor Fahy on Bowers in Italian studies, Wallace Kirsop on Bowers and the "French connection," David R...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)