TY - GEN AU - Stephen Greenblatt TI - Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture SN - 9780415771603 PY - 2007///0226 CY - Oxford PB - Routledge N2 - 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 ER -