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

Greenblatt, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0415903521 ISBN 13 : 9780415903523

Editeur : Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Stephen J. Greenblatt is the Class of 1932 Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely on Renaissance literature and culture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1992
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0415903521
• ISBN 13: 9780415903523
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible