160 Pages
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Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Stephen Greenblatt is the most important exponent of 'new historicism', a dynamic critical movement which rejects the traditional reliance on individual canonical texts, exploring a multitude of other, more marginal works and voices. Questioning not just literary but social, political and cultural assumptions about knowledge and power, Greenblatt’s work has had a huge impact on contemporary... Read more
Why Greenblatt? Key Ideas 1. From culture to cultural poetics 2. Practicing cultural poetics 3. Self-fashioning 4. The circulation of social energy 5. Resonance and wonder 6. Imagination and Will After Greenblatt Further Reading Works Cited
Biography
Mark Robson is Lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham. He is author of The Sense of Early Modern Writing (2006), co-author of Language in Theory (2005), and editor of Jacques Rancière: Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy (2005).
