Remembrance of Things I Forgot

A casebook of interpretations of the ballad The Walled-Up Wife.

Some contributors offer competing nationalistic claims concerning the ballad's origins, Ruth Mandel examines gender and power issues in the ballad, and Lyubomira Parpulova-Gribble presents a structuralist interpretation.

Author: Bob Smith
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 10/15/1996
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.91w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780299283407
Award: Triangle Awards - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/2011 pg. 34
Publishers Weekly 05/23/2011

About the Author

Bob Smith is author of the bestselling humorous memoirs Openly Bob (winner of a Lambda Literary Award) and Way to Go, Smith and the novel Selfish and Perverse, which was one of three finalists for the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. As a standup comic, he broke barriers as the first openly gay comedian to appear on TheTonight Show and was featured in his own HBO comedy special. His comic essays and articles have appeared in The Advocate and Out. He grew up in Buffalo, New York, and lives in New York City.