{"product_id":"the-greenblatt-reader-isbn-9781405115667","title":"The Greenblatt Reader","description":"Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism. This \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e makes available in one volume Greenblatt’s most important writings on culture, Renaissance studies, and Shakespeare. It also features occasional pieces on subjects as diverse as story-telling and miracles, demonstrating the range of his cultural interests. Taken together, the texts collected here dispel the idea that new historicism is antithetical to literary and aesthetic value.  Acknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Greenblatt and New Historicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart One: Culture and New Historicism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Towards a Poetics of Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Touch of the Real.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Two: Renaissance Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Wound in the Wall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Marvelous Possessions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Three: Shakespeare Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Invisible Bullets.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 The Improvisation of Power.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Shakespeare and the Exorcists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Martial Law in the Land of Cocaigne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart Four: Occasional Pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Prologue to \u003ci\u003eHamlet in Purgatory\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 China: Visiting Rites.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 China: Visiting Rites (II).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Laos is Open.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Story-Telling.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStephen Greenblatt: A Bibliography (1965-2003), compiled by Gustavo P. Secchi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  “As a founder of the ‘new historicism’, Stephen Greenblatt has done more than establish a critical school; he has invented a habit of mind for literary criticism, which is indispensable to the temperament of our times, and crucial to the culture of the past. This admirable anthology represents the subtle play of pleasure and instruction, embodied in writings that move effortlessly between wonder and wisdom.” \u003ci\u003eHomi K. Bhabha, Harvard University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“What a tribute to a long and distinguished career.”\"For three decades Stephen Greenblatt has been the most articulate, thoughtful, and daring voice in early modern studies. The breadth of his reading is vast, the connections he makes are unexpected and often revelatory, and his writing is, quite simply, brilliant. Most of all, his willingness to take chances has made him an exciting and uniquely provocative critic. It is wonderful to have these classic essays in a single collection; and especially to have the most ephemeral of the pieces, the exquisite meditations on his visits to China and Laos, easily available. This is a beautifully conceived, indispensable volume.\" \u003ci\u003eStephen Orgel, Stanford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  Stephen Jay Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor at Harvard University, where he teaches English. A founding editor of the journal Representations, he is a key figure in what is known as New Historicism (or cultural poetics). Beginning with the publication of Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1984, his books have had a transformative effect on scholarship and teaching of Shakespeare and the English Renaissance. He is also the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (1997).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eMichael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor of English Literature at Bucknell University. His recent publications include \u003ci\u003eA Dictionary of Critical and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), \u003ci\u003eReading Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eRenaissance Literature: An Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e (2003) – all published by Blackwell Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism. This \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e makes available in one volume Greenblatt’s most important writings on culture, Renaissance studies, and Shakespeare. It also features occasional pieces on subjects as diverse as story-telling and miracles, demonstrating the range of his cultural interests. Taken together, the texts collected here dispel the idea that new historicism is antithetical to literary and aesthetic value.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990244245733,"sku":"NP9781405115667","price":40.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405115667.jpg?v=1761787041","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-greenblatt-reader-isbn-9781405115667","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}