Stephen Greenblatt (Routledge Critical Thinkers) By Robson, Mark Mark Robson,

Mark Robson

Stephen GreenblattAuthor(s): Mark Robson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415343855, 978-0415343855\nSynopsis\nStephen 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. Questioning not just literary but social, political and cultural assumptions about knowledge and power, Greenblatts work has had a huge impact on contemporary theory.\n\nMark Robson discusses ideas specific to particular works and explores the relation of Greenblatts thought to new historicism as well as other modes of criticism including the key topics of:\n\ncontext\ncultural poetics\npower, subversion and containment\nthick description\nanecdotes.\n\nProviding a starting point for readers new to this crucial theorists sometimes complex texts, or support for those deepeni.