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The Greenblatt Reader

The Greenblatt Reader

Stephen Greenblatt

Taken together, the texts collected here dispel the idea that new historicism is antithetical to literary and aesthetic value. Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism.
Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt

Mark Robson

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.
Hamlet in Purgatory

Hamlet in Purgatory

Stephen Greenblatt

Thus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost. This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt.
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture

Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture

Stephen Greenblatt

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.
Shakespeare's Freedom

Shakespeare's Freedom

Stephen Greenblatt

With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Greenblatt, author of the bestselling "Will in the World," shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes as scripture, monarch, and God, and constantly probed the ...
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding ...

You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding ...

Joel Greenblatt

Fund manager Joel Greenblatt has been beating the Dow (with returns of 50 percent a year) for more than a decade. And now, in this highly accessible guide, he’s going to show you how to do it, too.
Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy ...

Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy ...

Stephen Greenblatt

Examines Shakespeare's plays in terms of Elizabethan society, analyzes exorcism, cross-dressing, colonial propaganda, and the law, and discusses Shakespeare's cultural influences
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

The real-world sources of Shakespeare's language - of his fantasies, passions, fears, and desires - lie outside the scope of these earlier books.
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World

Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World

Stephen Greenblatt

But the book also shows that the experience of the marvelous is not necessarily an agent of empire: in writers as different as Herodotus, Jean de Léry, and Montaigne—and notably in Mandeville's Travels, the most popular travel book of ...
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare

Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

Now a classic text in literary studies, Renaissance Self-Fashioning continues to be of interest to students of the Renaissance, English literature, and the new historicist tradition, and this new edition includes a preface by the author on ...
Hamlet in Purgatory

Hamlet in Purgatory

Stephen Greenblatt

... 1963); Miriam Joseph, “Hamlet, a Christian Tragedy,” Studies in Philology 59 ( 1962): 119–40; Prosser, Hamlet and Revenge; RobertF. Fleissner, “Subjectivity as an Occupational Hazard of 'Hamlet Ghost' Critics,” Hamlet Studies (New Delhi)  ...
Self-fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and ...

Self-fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and ...

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In Self-Fashioning and Assumptions of Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, chapter authors assert the applicability of Stephen Greenblatt's self-fashioning theory, originally framed within Elizabethan England, to medieval and early ...
The Blowin of Baile Gall

The Blowin of Baile Gall

Ronan Noone

So there's no way Laurence can even stay now. STEPHEN. (Pause.) To hell with him. He shouldn't be takin' our jobs, and ... STEPHEN. Don't feel sorry for me. And I from here. I'm Stephen. Wild Stevee. MOLLY. Wild Stevee. STEPHEN. Yeah.
Stephen, the First Martyr

Stephen, the First Martyr

Stephen Hodges

Narrates in verse the story of Stephen and his martyrdom.
Screening Violence 1

Screening Violence 1

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Stephen Prince ... make us Copyright © 1999 by Stephen Prince Stephen Prince pessimistic about the psychological health promoted in viewers Graphic Violence in the Cinema: Origins, Aesthetic Design, and Social Effects Stephen Prince.
The Michigan Alumnus

The Michigan Alumnus

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Back row: Good, Stephen, Sturgis, Thorns, Sabin, Case, Doty, Stephen, Reindel, Gorton, Hauke, Haskins, Hibbard, Bintz, .... O.; H. M. Stephen, Detroit; Paton C. Stephen, Shaker Heights, O. ; Marion L. Sturgis, Fowler, Mich.; Lansing W. Thorns, ...
The Inquest

The Inquest

Stephen Dando-Collins

Stephen Dando-Collins. A novel of the greatest story never told. in 1 STEPHEN Emmy "lfyou enjoyed THE DA WYWHI. mu mm? m“: V l mt this 1'): -Morgan waely ," fling mulmr “fl KTQO IRELAND '1“ 4(6) THE INQUEST STEPHEN ...
Where's Our Submarine

Where's Our Submarine

Stephen Swann

Stephen Swann. WHERE'S OUR SUBMARINE? By Stephen Swann Illustrated ByJackie Swann © 2009 Stephen Swann &Jackie Swann. All rights reserved. ISBN.
A Statistical History of Rugby League - Volume V

A Statistical History of Rugby League - Volume V

Stephen Kane

It is something every player and fan would do well to study. Stephen Kane the author of this book could be a reincarnation of Stephen Harold Gascoigne, better known as Yabba whose statue stands proudly at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Leslie Stephen

Leslie Stephen

Desmond MacCarthy

LESLIE STEPHEN In that joyously aEectionate and informal book, The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, Maitland, after disclaiming any intention of criticising his work, says: “ If, as I doubt not, he has left worthy successors, someone will some ...
Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders

Out Front with Stephen Abram: A Guide for Information Leaders

Stephen Abram

Jane Dysart Can you believe I didn't hire Stephen Abram when I had the chance? It was probably the best thing that could have happened to him, as he has gone on to have a stellar career as a librarian, library manager, electronic publisher, ...
Mystic Secrets

Mystic Secrets

Stephen Charles Long

“Mystic Secrets” Stephen Charles Long ISBN: 9780557051218 Copyright 2009 by Stephen Charles Long All rights ... Official Website Of Stephen Charles Long www.freewebs/stephencharleslong Published through Lulu Press Inc. Morrisville,  ...
Kiri: Her Unsung Story (Text Only)

Kiri: Her Unsung Story (Text Only)

Stephen d’ Antal

Stephen d' Antal, Garry Jenkins ... London SE19GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1998 Copyright © Garry Jenkins and Stephen d'Antal 1998 Garry Jenkins and Stephen d'Antal assert the  ...
Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays

Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays

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extended quotations from Anyone Can Whistle, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. © 1964 (renewed 1992) by Stephen Sondheim. Burthen Musics Company, Inc., owner of publication and allied rights for the World. Chappell and Co.
The Mistress of Trevelyan

The Mistress of Trevelyan

Jennifer St. Giles

Stephen Trevelyan, a drink in his hand, stood at one end of an ornate mahogany dining table; its curved legs ended in claws ... But, madre de Dios, when Katherine learned Stephen had arrived, she—” Biting her lip, Miss Ortega sent Stephen ...
The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror

The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror

Stephen Jones

' - Christopher Fowler 'Stephen Jones . . . has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country.'- Lisa Tuttle, The Times Books 'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones.

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