Stephen Greenblatt
Författare till The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Om författaren
Stephen Greenblatt is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. He is the author of Three Modern Satirists: Waugh, Orwell, and Huxley (1965); Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (1980); Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (1990); Redrawing the Boundaries: The visa mer Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992); The Norton Shakespeare (1997); Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (2004); Shakespeare's Freedom (2010); and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (2011). (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Stephen Greenblatt
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, volume F: The Twentieth Century and After (2005) 296 exemplar
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (New Historicism, Studies in… (1988) 159 exemplar
Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection (New York Review Books Classics) (2014) — Redaktör — 126 exemplar
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Major Authors, vol. B (2000) — Redaktör — 100 exemplar
Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies (1992) 88 exemplar
Die Erfindung der Intoleranz: Wie die Christen von Verfolgten zu Verfolgern wurden (Historische Geisteswissenschaften.… (2019) 3 exemplar
Will in the World - Proposal for Publication 1 exemplar
The Norton Anthology of English Literature (Single-Volume Edition) 8th (eighth) edition Text Only 1 exemplar
The Death of Hamnet and the Making of Hamlet 1 exemplar
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 2 8th (eighth) edition Text Only (2008) 1 exemplar
The Uncoupling 1 exemplar
The York Play of the Crucifixion 1 exemplar
Representations (Winter 1995 Number 49) 1 exemplar
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Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall (New York Review Books Classics) (2002) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor — 237 exemplar
The Fate of "Culture": Geertz and Beyond (Representations Books) (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 34 exemplar
Shakespeare in Our Time: A Shakespeare Association of America Collection (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 14 exemplar
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- Greenblatt, Stephen
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Greenblatt, Stephen Jay
- Födelsedag
- 1943-11-07
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Berkeley, California, USA - Utbildning
- Yale University (B.A.|1964|Ph.D|1969)
Pembroke College, Cambridge (M.Phil.|1966) - Yrken
- professor
literary critic
scholar - Relationer
- Targoff, Ramie (wife)
- Organisationer
- University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Modern Language Association of America - Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)
American Philosophical Society (2007)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008)
James Russell Lowell Prize (1989 and 2011)
Erasmus Institute Prize (2002)
Mellon Distinguished Humanist Award (2002) (visa alla 12)
William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theater (2005)
Wilbur Cross Medal (2010)
National Book Award for Nonfiction (2011)
Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction (2012)
Holberg Prize (2016)
Accademia degli Arcadi - Agent
- Jill Kneerim
- Kort biografi
- Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University as well as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction. He is the General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare and the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. He divided his time between Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Vermont. [from The Swerve (2011)
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The work was Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (“On the Nature of Things”), and it was written some time in the first century BC. Only a very few copies (literally copies which had been made and remade by scribes in monasteries over the centuries) survived until the 15th Century.
One of those copies was found by a remarkable man, Poggio Bracciolini. A great deal of The Swerve is about this man and his life, who acted as principal secretary to a series of Popes over a period of 50 years.
Lucretius was a follower of the philosopher Epicurius, who lived two centuries earlier, and his poem De Rerum Natura is perhaps the most beautiful expression of the Epicurian philosophy.
Among the many radical thoughts which Lucretius expressed were (as set out by Greenblatt in The Swerve):
• Everything is made of tiny invisible particles.
• These particles are indivisible and eternal.
• The particles are infinite in number but come in a limited number of shapes and sizes.
• All particles are in motion in an infinite void.
• The universe has no creator or designer.
• Nature ceaselessly experiments with different shapes and configurations of animals.
• The universe was not created for humans.
• Humans are not unique. We’re similar to other animals.
• Human society did not begin in a Golden Age from which it has declined, but in a battle for survival.
• There is no afterlife.
• Death is nothing to us, because experience ceases.
• All religions are delusions.
That these ideas are remarkably modern, even though set out more than 2,000 years ago by a Roman citizen, should be obvious. What is also obvious is how subversive they were to the mediaeval scholars reading them, contradicting the prevailing Judeo-Christian view of the world.
That nevertheless these ideas were able to spread in those times once Lucretius’ poem was rediscovered is perhaps even more remarkable.
There’s much, much more in The Swerve. A really excellent and fascinating book. A candidate for my best read of the year so far, competing with The Vital Question and A God in Ruins.
I’m glad I unearthed it in a second-hand bookshop in Bendigo, at least faintly mirroring the unearthing of De Rerum Natura in the library of a mediaeval monastery by Poggio Bracciolini.… (mer)