Field-Of-Study: Literary Criticism

Giovanni R. F. Ferrari

G. R. F. ("John") Ferrari is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1988.  A specialist in ancient philosophy, he is the author of the books Listening to the Cicadas:  A Study of Plato’s Phaedrus, and City and Soul in Plato’s Re

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John Felstiner

After three years on the USS Forrestal in the Mediterranean and four more at Harvard for his Ph.D., John Felstiner came to Stanford in 1965. His first book, The Lies of Art: Max Beerbohm’s Parody and Caricature (1972), has to do with parody as a critical, creative, and comic form. Since then his teaching and

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