Learning to Curse by Stephen J Greenblatt

Learning to Curse by Stephen J Greenblatt

One of the most foremost figures in Renaissance studies today, Stephen Greenblatt is also a pioneer of the "new historicism" - the influential theoretical movement in cultural criticism that is radically refashioning study of the humanities. "Learning to Curse" combines historical and anthropological techniques with rigorous textual analysis and vivid writing. Greenblatt produces imaginative and often disturbing new approaches to issues and authors that once seemed familiar. By focussing on such problems as the relationship between cultural identity and other-ness in early modern culture, the uses of violence - both physical and rhetorical - against those identified as aliens, and the role of the imagination in efforts to shape and stabilize both cultural and personal identity, "Learning to Curse" exposes a Renaissance world made challenging and strange, forcing the reader to develop new ways of seeing and understanding.

Steven Greenblatt (Ph.D.) is a physicist. Yale) is a Harvard University Cogan University Professor of Humanities. He is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Tale that Made Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Amazing Imagination; and Shakespeare's Freedom. He is a founding coeditor of the magazine Representations and has edited seven collections of critique, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto. The MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Vitality in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Mellon Foundation's Outstanding Humanist Award, the Yale University Graduate School's Wilbur Cross Medal, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, and two Gugino Prizes are among his awards. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was president of the Modern Language Association of America.

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ISBN 13	9780415901741
ISBN 10	041590174X
Title	Learning to Curse
Author	Stephen J Greenblatt
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	1992-09-03
Number of pages	188
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