Learning to curse : essays in early modern culture
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Learning to curse : essays in early modern culture
Routledge, 1990
- : hard
- : pb
Available at 39 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780415901734
Description
The author is a pioneer of "new historicism" - a form of cultural criticism that is refashioning studies in the humanities. His writing reflects the concerns of new historians: refusing to respect the boundaries that arbitrarily divide the literary and aesthetic from the political, it seeks to situate the elusive pleasures of literature within a context of cultural and historical understanding. The essays in this work trace the evolution of the author's new historical practice through his engagement with a wide variety of texts and social practices, from "King Lear" and "The Jew of Malta" to Zuni dances and the Musee d'Orsay. Combining historical an anthropological techniques with textual analysis, the author approaches issues and authors that once seemed comfortably familiar. Focusing on such problems as the relationship between cultural identity and otherness in early modern culture; the uses of violence, both physical and rhetorical, against those identified as aliens; and the role of the imagination in efforts to shape and stabilize both cultural and personal identity, this work exposes a Renaissance world made challenging and strange.
Table of Contents
- Learning to curse
- Marlowe, Marx, and anti-semitism
- filthy rites
- Lear's anxiety
- murdering peasants
- psychoanalysis and Renaissance culture
- towrads a poetics of culture
- resonance and wonder.
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: pb ISBN 9780415903523
Description
One of the foremost figures in Renaissance studies today, Stephen Greenblatt is also a pioneer of the "new historicism"--the influential theoretical movement in cultural criticism that is radically refashioning the study of the humanities.
Learning to Curse combines historical and anthropological techniques with rigorous textual analysis and vivid writing. Greenblatt produces imaginative and often disturbing new approaches to issues and authors which once seemed comfortably familiar. By focusing on such problems as the relationship between cultural identity and otherness in early modern culture; the uses of violence--both physical and rhetorical--against those identified as aliens; and the role of the imagination in efforts to shape and stabilize both cultural and personal identity, Learning to Curse exposes a Renaissance world made challenging and strange, forcing the reader to develop new ways of seeing and understanding.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the 16th Century 3. Marlowe, Marx and Anti-Semitism 4. Filthy Rites 5. The Cultivation of Anxiety: King Lear and His Heirs 6. Murdering Peasants: Status, Genre and Representation of Rebellion 7. Psychoanalysis and Renaissance Culture 8. Towards a Poetics of Culture 8. Resonance and Wonder.
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