Stephen Greenblatt

Learning to Curse

Essays in Early Modern Culture

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Learning to Curse is a wide ranging collection of essays that uses Marxist, psychoanalytic and historical perspectives to explore the art of the Renaissance

Produktdetails

• Routledge Classics
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU71609
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780415771603
• ISBN-10: 0415771609
• Artikelnr.: 21259733

Autorenporträt

Stephen J. Greenblatt, the pioneer of the new historicist approach to literature, is currently John Cogan Professor of Humanities at Harvard University and the author of the recent bestselling life of Shakespeare, Will in the World.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Learning to Curse 3. Marlowe, Marx and Anti-Semitism 4. Filthy Rites 5. The Cultivation of Anxiety 6. Murdering Peasants 7. Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Culture 8. Towards a Poetics of Culture 9. Resonance and Wonder. Index

Rezensionen

'Greenblatt writes with modest elegance, is a superb scholar and researcher, and deserves his status as the first voice in Renaissance studies today.' - Virginia Quarterly Review

'Greenblatt writes with modest elegance, is a superb scholar and researcher, and deserves his status as the first voice in Renaissance studies today.' - Virginia Quarterly Review