Stephen Greenblatt
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Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. His many books include Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He is a general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature
In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into...
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Para ayudarnos a comprender nuestros dilemas contemporáneos más urgentes, William Shakespeare no tiene igual.
Mientras Isabel I, cada vez más envejecida y obstinada, se aferraba al poder con uñas y dientes, un brillante dramaturgo exploraba las causas sociales, las raíces psicológicas y los retorcidos efectos de la tiranía. Al analizar la psique (y las psicosis) de personajes de la catadura de Ricardo III, Macbeth, Lear, Coriolano y de las...
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A masterwork of history and cultural studies, Marvelous Possessions is a brilliant meditation on the interconnected ways in which Europeans of the Age of Discovery represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, particularly in the New World. In a series of innovative readings of travel narratives, judicial documents, and official reports, Stephen Greenblatt shows that the experience of the marvelous, central to both art and philosophy,...
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance-More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare-and finds that in the early modern period new questions surrounding the nature of identity heavily influenced the literature of the era. Now a classic...
5) Adam & Ève
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Flammarion
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Cinquante lignes : telle est la modeste place qu'occupe l'histoire d'Adam et Ève dans la Bible. Pourtant, rien n'a plus durablement influencé notre conception des origines de l'homme. Ce bref épisode recèle des paradoxes prodigieux : un homme et une femme nés adultes, un serpent doué de parole, un arbre conférant la connaissance du bien et du mal... Comment cet invraisemblable récit peut-il être considéré, encore aujourd'hui, comme le miroir...