Learning to Curse

Essays in Early Modern Culture

Stephen Greenblatt author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:26th Feb '07

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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.

'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

ISBN: 9780415771603

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Weight: 300g

276 pages