Autore: Greenblatt Stephen Greenblatt

Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in …

A masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery represented non-European peoples …

Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading In this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, …

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 …

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the …

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 …

A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has …