Professor
cowa@umich.eduOffice Information:
3259 Angell Hall
hours: Fall 2023 by appointment
Jewish American; Graduate Faculty; Novel and Narrative; Comparative Literature; Drama and Performance; English; Early Modern; British; Global and Transnational
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., Berkeley 1980Highlighted Work and Publications
A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present.
Walter Cohen
- Up-to-date coverage of the entire history of European and Western literature
- Original arguments about the literature of every historical period
- An original and systematic literary history
The Norton Shakespeare. Ed. Stephen Greenblatt (General Editor), Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, and Katharine
Walter Cohen
The Norton Shakespeare has long been acclaimed worldwide for its vibrant introductions, first among them Stephen Greenblatt's General Introduction, a richly textured portrait of Shakespeare's work and world. This Third Edition introduces a meticulously edited new text created by an expert international team of textual editors, a new introduction to the theater of Shakespeare's time, new performance notes, and hundreds of fine-tuned glosses that aid readers' understanding of the plays and poems. More than 170 Elizabethan and Jacobean illustrations round out this handsome volume, which is indispensable...
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AAS 358-015
Topics in Black World Studies
ENGLISH 472-001
Twentieth-Century American Literature