Stephen Greenblatt

Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos alemanes en busca de manuscritos antiguos. En uno de ellos descubrió el único ejemplar que habia sobrevivido de una obra escrita en el siglo primero antes de Cristo, De rerum natura, un poema filosofico de Tito Lucrecio Caro que desarrollaba una vision materialista del mundo, destinada a liberar al hombre del temor a los dioses. Lo copio y regreso con el a Italia, donde la difusion de sus peligrosas ideas fue una de las fuentes del giro cultural del Renacimiento, que iba a dar lugar al cambio ideologico del que surgio el mundo moderno. Aquel libro ignorado, que pudo haberse perdido, ejercio una considerable influencia sobre una linea de pensadores que va de Giordano Bruno o Montaigne hasta Freud o Einstein. Stephen Greenblatt, que a su calidad de investigador une la de ser un gran escritor, nos ofrece un apasionante relato de esta aventura de las ideas.

Un libro que obtuvo el prestigioso National Book Award en 2011 y el Premio Pulitzer en 2012. Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos

El nuevo libro de Stephen Greenblatt, autor de El giro, arroja luz a la enigmática figura de Christopher Marlowe, el genio del Renacimiento inglés que rivalizó con el mismo Shakespeare. Pobre, espía,

A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the worlds greatest playwright. 23 illustrations

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 insulating literature from the world around it. Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.

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Et si la Renaissance était née d''un livre ? Un livre perdu, connu par fragments, recopié par quelques moines et retrouve par un humaniste fou de manuscrits anciens ? L''idée, audacieuse, vertigineuse, ouvre les portes de l''histoire de Poggio Bracciolini, dit le Pogge, qui decouvrit une copie du De renon nanera de Lucrece dans un monastere allemand. C''etait a l''aube du XVe siecle.Le Pogge n''etait pas seulement un bibliophile passionne et un copiste hors pair. II aimait les arts et il avait ecrit des faceties grivoises. Il aimait les femmes et etait pere de dix - neuf enfants. Il n''aimait pas l''Eglise mais il etait secretaire d''un pape diaboliquement intelligent et corrompu. Ainsi s''ouvre a nous un monde inoui. celui d''une cour papale ou s''agitaient agents cupides, moines seducteurs, filous. femmes de petite vertu et humanistes d''exception: un monde a la fois severe et deprave, contraignant mais libre.En decouvrant. copiant et diffusant l''oeuvre de Lucrece, le Pogge aura leve le voile sur les temps modernes, et influence des esprits aussi puissants que Montaigne ou Machiavel. Car tout, selon Lucrece, est fait d''atonies en mouvement, qui s''entrechoquent au hasard, se separent et se rencontrent a nouveau. Telle fut l''intuition geniale du poete latin, une celebration de la danse de la matiere et un breviaire d''atheisme qui allaient bouleverser le Moyen Age finissant.Conteur ne, erudit et brillant, Stephen Greenblatt emporte le lecteur au coeur de ce Quattrocento qui fit revivre l''Antiquite pour la porter jusqu''a nous.

"So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration."Dan Cryer, Newsday Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper''s), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life; full of drama and pageantry, and also cruelty and danger; could have become the world''s greatest playwright. A young man from the provincesa man without wealth, connections, or university educationmoves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban sophisticates and first-time theatergoers; he turns politics into poetry; he recklessly mingles vulgar clowning and philosophical subtlety. How is such an achievement to be explained? Will in the World interweaves a searching account of Elizabethan England with a vivid narrative of the playwright''s life. We see Shakespeare learning his craft, starting a family, and forging a career for himself in the wildly competitive London theater world, while at the same time grappling with dangerous religious and political forces that took less-agile figures to the scaffold. Above all, we never lose sight of the great worksA Midsummer Night''s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, and morethat continue after four hundred years to delight and haunt audiences everywhere. The basic biographical facts of Shakespeare''s life have been known for over a century, but now Stephen Greenblatt shows how this particular life history gave rise to the world''s greatest writer. Bringing together little-known historical facts and little-noticed elements of Shakespeare''s plays, Greenblatt makes inspired connections between the life and the works and deliver "a dazzling and subtle biography" (Richard Lacayo, Time). Readers will experience Shakespeare''s vital plays again as if for the first time, but with greater understanding and appreciation of their extraordinary depth and humanity. A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2004; Time magazine''s #1 Best Nonfiction Book; A Washington Post Book World Rave ; An Economist Best Book ; A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book; A Christian Science Monitor Best Book; A Chicago Tribune Best Book; A Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Best Book ; NPR''s Maureen Corrigan''s Best. 16 pages of color illustrations

Hace cerca de seiscientos años, en 1417, un humanista italiano emprendió un viaje para visitar conventos alemanes en busca de manuscritos antiguos. En uno de ellos descubrió el único ejemplar que habia sobrevivido de una obra escrita en el siglo primero antes de Cristo, De rerum natura, un poema filosofico de Tito Lucrecio Caro que desarrollaba una vision materialista del mundo, destinada a liberar al hombre del temor a los dioses. Lo copio y regreso con el a Italia, donde la difusion de sus peligrosas ideas fue una de las fuentes del giro cultural del Renacimiento, que iba a dar lugar al cambio ideologico del que surgio el mundo moderno. Aquel libro ignorado, que pudo haberse perdido, ejercio una considerable influencia sobre una linea de pensadores que va de Giordano Bruno o Montaigne hasta Freud o Einstein. Stephen Greenblatt, que a su calidad de investigador une la de ser un gran escritor, nos ofrece un apasionante relato de esta aventura de las ideas.

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The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the awe-inspiring contributions of Augustine, Durer, and Milton in bringing Adam and Eve to vivid life, Greenblatt unpacks the story's many interpretations and consequences over time. Rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, narrow literalism, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature: all can be counted as children of our "first" parents.

Trad., Socorro Giménez. Contiene ilustraciones. ¿Cómo representar al otro? ¿Cómo dar contenido a sus signos sin apropiarse de ellos en el mismo gesto? Estas son las preguntas que animan el interés de Stephen Greenblatt por el encuentro entre culturas, en particular por uno de los mayores episodios de este tipo que ha conocido la humanidad, tanto por su escala geografica como por la distancia cultural que separa a sus protagonistas: el descubrimiento del Nuevo Mundo. Mas alla del estudio de fuentes y registros historicos, Greenblatt despliega, en dialogo con ''La conquista de America de Todorov'', una interesante y ambiciosa reflexion sobre la relacion con el otro alrededor del concepto del asombro o la maravilla [wonder]: forma de reconocimiento a la vez que de negacion o apropiacion, la maravilla contiene tambien la posibilidad de una intermediacion o de un verdadero reconocimiento de uno mismo en el otro.

NORTON ANTHOLOGY ENGLISH LITERATURE 1, A-B-C, 10ED. es un libro del autor GREENBLATT, STEPHEN editado por W W NORTON & CO LTD. NORTON ANTHOLOGY ENGLISH LITERATURE 1, A-B-C, 10ED. tiene un código

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Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eves story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The mythic tale of Adam and Eve has shaped conceptions of human origins and destiny for centuries. Stemming from a few verses in an ancient book, it became not just the foundation of three major world faiths, but has evolved through art, philosophy and science to serve as the mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires.In a quest that begins at the dawn of time, Stephen Greenblatt takes us from ancient Babylonia to the forests of east Africa. We meet evolutionary biologists and fossilised ancestors; we grapple with morality and marriage in Miltons Paradise Lost; and we decide if the Fall is the unvarnished truth or fictional allegory.