The Greenblatt Reader

, by Payne, Michael; Greenblatt, Stephen

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ISBN: 9781405115667 | 1405115661
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Copyright: 2/11/2005

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This Reader makes available in one volume the most important writing by Stephen Greenblatt, one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism.

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).

Michael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor of English Literature at Bucknell University. His recent publications include A Dictionary of Critical and Cultural Theory (1996), Reading Knowledge (1997), and Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (2003) – all published by Blackwell Publishing.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Greenblatt and New Historicism

(8)

Part I Culture and New Historicism

(42)

Culture

(7)

Towards a Poetics of Culture

(12)

The Touch of the Real

(21)

Part II Renaissance Studies

(68)

The Wound in the Wall

(28)

Marvelous Possessions

(38)

Part III Shakespeare Studies

119

(142)

Invisible Bullets

121

(40)

The Improvisation of Power

161

(36)

Shakespeare and the Exorcists

197

(32)

Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne

229

(32)

Part IV Occasional Pieces

261

(46)

Prologue to Hamlet in Purgatory

263

(6)

China: Visiting Rites

269

(13)

China: Visiting Rites (II)

282

(9)

Laos is Open

291

(12)

Story-Telling

303

(4)

Stephen Greenblatt: A Bibliography (1965--2003)

307

(7)

Gustavo P. Secchi

Index

314

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