Learning to Curse

By Stephen Greenblatt

Learning to Curse - 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