num_pages: 280
description: Stephen Greenblatt argued in these celebrated essays that the art of the Renaissance could only be understood in the context of the society from which it sprang. His approach - 'New Historicism' - drew from history, anthropology, Marxist theory, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis and in the process, blew apart the academic boundaries insulating literature from the world around it. Learning to Curse charts the evolution of that approach and provides a vivid and compelling exploration of a complex and contradictory epoch.
language: English
title: Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
titlecomplete: Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture (Routledge Classics)
genres: History, Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Essays, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 76
publisher: Routledge