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Title: Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture by Stephen J. Greenblatt ISBN: 0-415-90352-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: Not much of originality here, and all too often suffering from a pretentious and clumsy style. Greenblatt is, perhaps not surprisingly, a popular writer and professor, but his comfort zone is more narrow and unadventurous than he realizes. His ignorance of contemporary historical studies is especially tiresome.
Rating: 5
Summary: A new view of art.....
Comment: In LEARNING TO CURSE, Stephen Greenblatt presents a collection of his essays on the works of Shakespeare, Spencer and other authors of the 16th century. The book takes it's title from his first essay, an examination of "The Tempest" by Shakespeare.
Greenblatt asks if one can understand a work of art without reference to the artist, his audience, and the social context of period within which the artist worked. He also asks if different audiences in different periods have had similar reactions to the work or even if different people in the same audience in the same period have had the the same reaction. Does a work of art have an intrinsic value that transcends the individual experience over time?
On the other hand, Greenblatt says that while the historical context within which the work of art was created is important, it is critical the scholar realize history is not fixed. Using ideas gleaned from the "new historicism" as well as ethnographic and sociological notions, Greenblatt provokes the reader to rethink the idea of 'historical context'.
He says his critical approach has been concerned with recovering "as far as possible the historical circumstances" of aesthetic production without viewing history "as a stable prefabricated background against which literary texts can be placed." Instead, he sees the historical context as a "dense network of evolving and often contradictory social forces."
The essays in this little volume investigate and interpret a series of literary works by authors from Shakespeare to Martin Luther and Thomas Moore. Greenblatt has included a interesting essay on the case of Martin Guerre in 14th Century France in which he explores the ideas of crime and capital punishment in association with the theft of personal identity in the Middle Ages.
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Title: Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Jay Greenblatt ISBN: 0226306542 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: January, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Hamlet in Purgatory by Stephen Greenblatt ISBN: 0691102570 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 26 August, 2002 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: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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