Stephen Greenblatt (Routledge Critical Thinkers) - Hardcover

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Robson, Mark

 
9780415343848: Stephen Greenblatt (Routledge Critical Thinkers)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415343844 ISBN 13: 9780415343848
Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

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 theory.

Mark Robson discusses ideas specific to particular works and explores the relation of Greenblatt’s thought to new historicism as well as other modes of criticism including the key topics of:

  • context
  • cultural poetics
  • power, subversion and containment
  • thick description
  • anecdotes.

Providing a starting point for readers new to this crucial theorist’s sometimes complex texts, or support for those deepening their understanding of his work, this guidebook is ideal for students in the fields of literary, history, social and cultural studies.

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About the Author

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).

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415343844
ISBN 13 
9780415343848
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
160

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