01188 a2200265 4500 20250526161929.0 250430042007GB 6 eng 9780415771603 BC Taylor & Francis GBP 17.99 BB 01 eng N thema DSB thema 3M bisac HBLH bic DSBD bic LIT000000 bisac 820.9003 bisac Stephen Greenblatt 673 Learning to Curse Essays in Early Modern Culture 1 Oxford Routledge 20070226 276 p 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. 10442 10442