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1. Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character

   By Karen Newman

   First published in 1985. In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. His comic practice is firmly set within a...

   Published September 25th 2008 by Routledge
2. Time and the Literary

   Edited by Karen Newman, Jay Clayton, Marianne Hirsch

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's seminal essay "Literary History and Literary...

   Published June 13th 2002 by Routledge