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Learning To Curse : Essays In Early Modern Culture
Paperback Edition: 1
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.
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Pages : 272
Publisher : Routledge
Publication date : 2007-02-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL, Literature & Literary Studies, Literary Studies: General, Literature: History & Criticism