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Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New Worldby Stephen GreenblattISBN 0198122667 (0-19-812266-7)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marvelous Possessions : The Wonder of the New World'Book summary:Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World.[via]
In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy, was cunningly yoked by Columbus and others to the service of colonial appropriation. He argues that the traditional symbolic actions and legal rituals through which European sovereignty was asserted were strained to the breaking point by the unprecedented nature of the discovery of the New World. But the book also shows that the experience of the marvelous is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Léry, and Montaigneand notably in Mandeville's Travels, the most popular travel book of the Middle Ageswonder is a sign of a remarkably tolerant recognition of cultural difference.
Marvelous Possession is not only a collection of the odd and exotic through which Stephen Greenblatt powerfully conveys a sense of the marvelous, but also a highly original extension of his thinking on a subject that has occupied him throughout his career. The book reaches back to the ancient Greeks and forward to the present to ask how it is possible, in a time of disorientation, hatred of the other, and possessiveness, to keep the capacity for wonder from being poisoned?
"A marvellous book. It is also a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'The wonder of the New World.'"Anthony Pagden, Times Literary Supplement
"By far the most intellectually gripping and penetrating discussion of the relationship between intruders and natives is provided by Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions."Simon Schama, The New Republic
"For the most engaging and illuminating perspective of all, read Marvelous Possessions."Laura Shapiro, NewsweekMore editions of Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World:
- Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World: ISBN 0226306526 (0-226-30652-6)
Softcover, University of Chicago Press - Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World: ISBN 0198123825 (0-19-812382-5)
Hardcover, Clarendon Press - Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World: ISBN 0226306518 (0-226-30651-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Marvelous Possessions : The Wonder of the New World: ISBN 0198122667 (0-19-812266-7)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
- Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World: ISBN 0226306526 (0-226-30652-6)
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Meyer Howard Abrams, Stephen GreenblattISBN 0393151085 (0-393-15108-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Anthology of English Literature'Book summary:For close to forty years, The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors, has introduced students to the principal authors of the English literary tradition by providing generous samplings of their most characteristic and brilliant work. The Seventh Edition builds on this approach in an innovative revision that offers new selections, refreshed editorial apparatus, new format and package options, and unmatched media support, both online and in the dazzling new Media Companion CD-ROM. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of English Literatureby Stephen Greenblatt , M. H. AbramsISBN 0393925315 (0-393-92531-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Norton Shakespeare : Based on the Oxford Editionby William Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt , Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine E. MausISBN 0393041077 (0-393-04107-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Shakespeare : Based on the Oxford Edition'Book summary:Rediscover Shakespeare -- the working man of the theater, not the universal bard -- and rediscover his plays as scripts to be performed, not works to be immortalized. Combining the freshly edited texts of the Oxford Edition with lively introductions, this contemporary Shakespeare enables readers to see and read Shakespeare afresh. [via]
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The Possession at Loudunby Michel De Certeau, Michael B. Smith, Stephen GreenblattISBN 0226100359 (0-226-10035-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Practicing New Historicismby Catherine Gallagher, Stephen GreenblattISBN 0226279359 (0-226-27935-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practicing New Historicism'Book summary:For almost twenty years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In Practicing the New Historicism, two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects.[via]
In lucid and jargon-free prose, Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt focus on five central aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology. Arguing that new historicism has always been more a passionately engaged practice of questioning and analysis than an abstract theory, Gallagher and Greenblatt demonstrate this practice in a series of characteristically dazzling readings of works ranging from paintings by Joos van Gent and Paolo Uccello to Hamlet and Great Expectations.
By juxtaposing analyses of Renaissance and nineteenth-century topics, the authors uncover a number of unexpected contrasts and connections between the two periods. Are aspects of the dispute over the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist detectable in British political economists' hostility to the potato? How does Pip's isolation in Great Expectations shed light on Hamlet's doubt?
Offering not only an insider's view of new historicism, but also a lively dialogue between a Renaissance scholar and a Victorianist, Practicing the New Historicism is an illuminating and unpredictable performance by two of America's most respected literary scholars.
"Gallagher and Greenblatt offer a brilliant introduction to new historicism. In their hands, difficult ideas become coherent and accessible."Choice
"A tour de force of new literary criticism. . . . Gallagher and Greenblatt's virtuoso readings of paintings, potatoes (yes, spuds), religious ritual, and novelsall 'texts'as well as essays on criticism and the significance of anecdotes, are likely to take their place as model examples of the qualities of the new critical school that they lead. . . . A zesty work for those already initiated into the incestuous world of contemporary literary criticism-and for those who might like to see what all the fuss is about."Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMore editions of Practicing New Historicism:
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeareby Catherine Gallagher, Stephen GreenblattISBN 0226306593 (0-226-30659-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare'Book summary:"A book which no one concerned with Western culture in or since the Renaissance should miss."--Richard Strier, Boundary 2[via]More editions of Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare:
- Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare: ISBN 0226306542 (0-226-30654-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare: ISBN 0226306534 (0-226-30653-4)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press - Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare: ISBN 0226306593 (0-226-30659-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
- Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare: ISBN 0226306542 (0-226-30654-2)
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance Englandby Stephen GreenblattISBN 0198122276 (0-19-812227-6)
Softcover, Oxford University Press
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeareby Stephen GreenblattISBN 039332737X (0-393-32737-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'Book summary:There's no shortage of good Shakespearean biographies. But Stephen Greenblatt, brilliant scholar and author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, reminds us that the "surviving traces" are "abundant but thin" as to known facts. He acknowledges the paradox of the many biographies spun out of conjecture but then produces a book so persuasive and breathtakingly enjoyable that one wonders what he could have done if the usual stuff of biographical inquiry--memoirs, interviews, manuscripts, and drafts--had been at his disposal. Greenblatt uses the "verbal traces" in Shakespeare's work to take us "back into the life he lived and into the world to which he was so open." Whenever possible, he also ushers us from the extraordinary life into the luminous work. The result is a marvelous blend of scholarship, insight, observation, and, yes, conjecture--but conjecture always based on the most convincing and inspired reasoning and evidence. Particularly compelling are Greenblatt's discussions of the playwright's relationship with the university wit Robert Greene (discussed as a chief source for the character of Falstaff) and of Hamlet in relation to the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, his aging father, and the "world of damaged rituals" that England's Catholics were forced to endure.
Will in the World is not just the life story of the world's most revered writer. It is the story, too, of 16th- and 17th-century England writ large, the story of religious upheaval and political intrigue, of country festivals and brutal public executions, of the court and the theater, of Stratford and London, of martyrdom and recusancy, of witchcraft and magic, of love and death: in short, of the private but engaged William Shakespeare in his remarkable world. Throughout the book, Greenblatt's style is breezy and familiar. He often refers to the poet simply as Will. Yet for all his alacrity of style and the book's accessibility, Will in the World is profoundly erudite, an enormous contribution to the world of Shakespearean letters. --Silvana TropeaInterview with Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt shares his thoughts about what make Shakespeare Shakespeare and why the Bard continues to fascinate us endlessly.More editions of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare:
- Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare: ISBN 0393050572 (0-393-05057-2)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - Will in the World : How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare: ISBN 022406276X (0-224-06276-X)
Hardcover, Random House - Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare: ISBN 039332737X (0-393-32737-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
- Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare: ISBN 0393050572 (0-393-05057-2)
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