The Hamlet Case

About the Book

Agostino Glioma, a crazed literature professor at the University of California at Berkeley, murders every member of the editorial board of Shakespeare Studies, a scholarly journal he has edited for 30 years.  But not before each of them has offered a different interpretation of Hamlet.  This satire on academia and parody of detective stories is also a mystery of ideas and an exercise in literary criticism and cultural theory.  It offers conflicing Marxist, structuralist, Freudian, feminist, sociological and historical analyses of Shakespeare’s greatest play in an entertaining, amusing and edifying work.

Find out what Melanie JungFreud, Boris Jameson-Kellnerov, Anastasia Spivak-Trotsky, Ishh Uttarpradesh, Clive Barker and Agostino Glioma have to say about Hamlet, academic life, literary criticism and many other things.  

As in his other academic mysteries, Postmortem for a Postmodernist, Die Laughing, and Murder Ad Nauseam,  detective  Solomon Hunter and his assistant Talcott Weems find themselves trying to understand the ideas and motives of  a group of rather strange academics and trying to prevent them from being murdered.

About the Author

Arthur Asa Berger is professor of Broadcast & Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University, where he has taught since 1965. He has published more than thirty books on popular culture, media, humor and related topics. In recent years, he has taken to writing books that poke fun at academics and universities with books such as Post Mortem for a Postmodernist (AltaMira Press), Die Laughing (iUniverse.com) and The Hamlet Case (Fatbrain.com). He is currently writing a book on video games.