Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture - Couverture souple

Greenblatt, Stephen J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 041590174X ISBN 13 : 9780415901741

Editeur : Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the 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 the 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 which once seemed comfortably familiar. By focusing on such problems as the relationship between cultural identity and otherness 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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it.

Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 041590174X
• ISBN 13: 9780415901741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 188
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• Personne responsable: non disponible