Stephen Greenblatt
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2014
160 pages
978-1-317-59522-9 (ISBN)
Description
Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices. Questioning not just literary but social, political and cultural assumptions about knowledge and power, Greenblatt's work has had a huge impact on contemporary theory.
Mark Robson discusses ideas specific to particular works and explores the relation of Greenblatt's thought to new historicism as well as other modes of criticism including the key topics of:
context
cultural poetics
power, subversion and containment
thick description
anecdotes.
Providing a starting point for readers new to this crucial theorist's sometimes complex texts, or support for those deepening their understanding of his work, this guidebook is ideal for students in the fields of literary, history, social and cultural studies.
Mark Robson discusses ideas specific to particular works and explores the relation of Greenblatt's thought to new historicism as well as other modes of criticism including the key topics of:
context
cultural poetics
power, subversion and containment
thick description
anecdotes.
Providing a starting point for readers new to this crucial theorist's sometimes complex texts, or support for those deepening their understanding of his work, this guidebook is ideal for students in the fields of literary, history, social and cultural studies.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,97 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-59522-9 (9781317595229)
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Person
Mark Robson is Lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham. He is author of The Sense of Early Modern Writing (2006), co-author of Language in Theory (2005), and editor of Jacques Ranciere: Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy (2005).
Content
Why Greenblatt? Key Ideas 1. From culture to cultural poetics 2. Practicing cultural poetics 3. Self-fashioning 4. The circulation of social energy 5. Resonance and wonder 6. Imagination and Will After Greenblatt Further Reading Works Cited
