The Greenblatt Reader

by Payne, Michael; Greenblatt, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781405115650
• ISBN10: 1405115653
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-02-11
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Reader makes available in one volume the most important writing by Stephen Greenblatt, one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism.

Author Biography

Stephen Jay Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor at Harvard University, where he teaches English. A founding editor of the journal Representations, he is a key figure in what is known as New Historicism (or cultural poetics). Beginning with the publication of Renaissance Self-Fashioning in 1984, his books have had a transformative effect on scholarship and teaching of Shakespeare and the English Renaissance. He is also the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (1997).

Michael Payne is John P. Crozer Professor of English Literature at Bucknell University. His recent publications include A Dictionary of Critical and Cultural Theory (1996), Reading Knowledge (1997), and Renaissance Literature: An Anthology (2003) – all published by Blackwell Publishing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Introduction: Greenblatt and New Historicism	1	(8)
Part I Culture and New Historicism	9	(42)
Culture	11	(7)
Towards a Poetics of Culture	18	(12)
The Touch of the Real	30	(21)
Part II Renaissance Studies	51	(68)
The Wound in the Wall	53	(28)
Marvelous Possessions	81	(38)
Part III Shakespeare Studies	119	(142)
Invisible Bullets	121	(40)
The Improvisation of Power	161	(36)
Shakespeare and the Exorcists	197	(32)
Martial Law in the Land of Cockaigne	229	(32)
Part IV Occasional Pieces	261	(46)
Prologue to Hamlet in Purgatory	263	(6)
China: Visiting Rites	269	(13)
China: Visiting Rites (II)	282	(9)
Laos is Open	291	(12)
Story-Telling	303	(4)
Stephen Greenblatt: A Bibliography (1965--2003)	307	(7)
Gustavo P. Secchi
Index	314