Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern CultureStephen 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 |
Contents
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Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century | 22 |
3 Marlowe Marx and AntiSemitism | 52 |
4 Filthy Rites | 77 |
King Lear and His Heirs | 105 |
Status Genre and the Representation of Rebellion | 132 |
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Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture Stephen Jay Greenblatt,Stephen Greenblatt No preview available - 1990 |
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