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Title: Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Jay Greenblatt ISBN: 0-226-30654-2 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1984 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Doing away with Authors
Comment: Mr. Greenblatt's theories continue an academic tradition of discounting the individual work of the writer by forcing historical context over text, treating the writer of a creative work as mere vessel. What happened to the individual reader encoutering the writer via the work of art? Of course, this common sense approach would cut short a lot of pedantic careers, and that is what Critical Theory is all about: it allows pedants to have a job.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Book on the Renaissance Ever
Comment: OK. So maybe I'm biased. I took a course from Greenblatt when an undergard at U.C. Berekely, and he then directed my dissertation when I took my Ph.D. From U.C. Berkeley as well. But I am not alone in regarding this book as a masterpiece, exteremely well-written adn insightful. This book transformed not only the study of the Renaissance but of English literature in general. Moreover, it has influenced historians such as Natalie Daivis and anthropologists. After 17 years, Renaissance Self-Fashioning totally stands up. The chapters on Wyatt, Tyndale, More (truly stellar), Spenser, and Shakespeare remained unsurpassed. Readers may quibble, but though whose do have never written and will never write a book anywhere remotely near the excellence of Greeblatt's. It is truly inspired and deservedly influential.
Rating: 5
Summary: Not falsifiable,therefore opinion hidden as theory
Comment: I admire this book greatly and give it 5 stars for the way it made me reread important renaissance writings. Greenblatt's stories are engaging and his writing all things considered is good for an academic. But New Historicism suffers from the disabilities of all of the new "isms"--it dispenses with evidence or rather decides what counts as evidence. Rather like the man who went to a psyciatrist claiming he was dead. "Do dead men bleed?" asked the psychiatrist "Of course not" said the patient wherupon the Psychiatrist poked him with a needle and drew blood. "What do you know" said the patient "Dead men DO bleed!" Karl Popper argued that if an argument cannot in principle be proved wrong it is not an argument. This is Greenblatt's problem
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Title: Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England by Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Jay Greenblaet ISBN: 0520061608 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Practicing New Historicism by Catherine Gallagher, Stephen Greenblatt ISBN: 0226279359 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt ISBN: 0691102570 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen J. Greenblatt ISBN: 0415903521 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World by Stephen Greenblatt ISBN: 0226306526 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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