Critical self-fashioning
Subtitle: Stephen Greenblatt and the new historicism
By: Jürgen Pieters (ed.).
Contributors: Pieters, Jürgen.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-; Criticism.; Historicism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Literature and the longing for history / Ann Rigney; title: The author as hymen : Fernando de Rojas' La celestina between Stephen Gilman and Michel Foucault / Nadie Lie; title: Greenblattian self-fashioning and the construction of "literary history" / Sonja Laden; title: "With all my heart" : the pound of flesh and the execution of justice / Paul Franssen; title: Mystical bodies : King Lear and the discourse of possession / Jans Frans van Dijkhuizen; title: "Speaking Wittgenstein all along" : Stephen Greenblatt and the philosophical contexts of the new historicism / David Schalkwyk; title: Historicizing Greenblatt's "Containment" : the Cold War, functionalism, and the origins of social pathology / Jonathan Gil Harris; title: Greenblatt, Girard, and the recontextualisation of aesthetic experience, or, What does aesthetic practice have to do with cultural theories / Benjamin Biebuyck; title: The dialectic of modernity and beyond : Adorno, Foucault, Certeau, and Greenblatt in comparison / Koenraad Geldof; title: Thematising social energy : the "bal des ardents" and the production of the demonic in medieval culture / Jan R. Veenstra.