Learning to Curse Essays in Early Modern Culture

Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor 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 . Zusammenfassung Learning to Curse is a wide ranging collection of essays that uses Marxist, psychoanalytic and historical perspectives to explore the art of the Renaissance Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen (Harvard University Greenblatt
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 21.12.2015
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781138138452
• ISBN: 978-1-138-13845-2
• Pages: 34
• Series: Routledge Classics; Routledge Classics
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, History and Archaeology, Marxist Literary Theory, Routledge academic classics;Renaissance cultural studies;Marxist literary theory;psychoanalytic criticism;historical poetics;social context of drama;new historicism in Renaissance literature, psychoanalytic criticism, historical poetics, new historicism in Renaissance literature, social context of drama, Renaissance cultural studies, Routledge academic classics