Animals That Talk; or, Stutter

Abstract

marc shell is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University. His books include Art and Money (Chicago University Press, 1995), The End of Kinship:Measure for Measure, Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), and Children of the Earth:Literature, Politics, and Nationhood (Oxford University Press, 1993). Among other anthologies, he has coedited with Werner Sollers The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations (New York University Press, 2000), a product of The Longfellow Institute, of which he is co-director. His book Polio and Its Aftermaths is forthcoming with Harvard University Press (2004); another book, Stutter, is also forthcoming with the same press.