The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began

ISBN-13: 9780099572442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 368 str.

Stephen Greenblatt

Opis

One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.

Recenzje

Superbly readable... An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Daily Telegraph

O autorze

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning.

He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, and has edited seven collections of literary criticism.