Learning to Curse
By Stephen Greenblatt
- Release Date: 2015-12-21
- Genre: Literary Criticism
Description
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 insul