New World Encounters

"Refreshing and gratifying. . . . The epics of the Pueblos' resistance, the Aztec poetry before and after the conquest, and the ritual of toqui oncoy show the complexity of the means for survival developed throughout the Americas, from New Mexico to the Andes."—Jaime Concha, University of California, San Diego

"Many of these essays form the cutting edge of scholarship on the expansion of Europe and its cultural consequences. Visual evidence, much of it unfamiliar, is deftly integrated into the textual analysis. . . . This work is so solid, so elegantly presented, and at the same time so innovative that the book should attract considerable attention and remain in use for a long time."—Anthony Grafton, author of Defenders of the Text

List of contents

CONTRIBUTORS:
Stephen Greenblatt
Margarita Zamora
Inga Clendinnen
Rolena Adorno
Anthony Pagden
Sabine MacCormack
Frank Lestringant
David Damrosch
Sara Castro-Klarén
Louis Montrose
Mary C. Fuller
David Quint
Jeffrey Knapp
Luce Giard
Michel de Certeau

About the author

Stephen Greenblatt is The Class of 1932 Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Two of his publications, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and Representing the English Renaissance (of which he is the editor) are available in paperback from California. His most recent book is Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World (1991).

Summary

The five centuries which have passed since the discovery of the New World have not diminished the overwhelming importance or strangeness of the early encounter between Europeans and native Americans. This collection of essays offers a multidisciplinary approach to this meeting of cultures.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen J. Greenblatt
• Assisted by: Stephen Greenblatt (Editor), Stephen J. Greenblatt (Editor), Greenblatt Stephen (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.1993
• EAN: 9780520080218
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08021-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Representations Books; Representations Books
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Cultural Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, CE period up to c 1500, American English, Literary studies: general, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, History of the Americas, The Americas, History of the Americas: pre-Columbian period, HISTORY / Latin America / Pre-Columbian Era