Ebook {Epub PDF} The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt

 · The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. 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. One of the /5(K).  · The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page-turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word. In the winter of , a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old 5/5(2).  · Stephen Greenblatt is the John Cogan University Professor of Humanities at Harvard University and general editor of the eminently respected “Norton Shakespea.

Notes for the book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt. Preface. Greenblatt picked up Lucretius' On the Nature of Things in a college book sale. He was struck by the ideas it espoused, including ideas on how to handle death. He had been fearful of death through his mother, who used it as a manipulative device. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By Stephen Greenblatt (W.W. Norton, pp., $) M idway through the greatest literary work of the Italian Renaissance, the paladin Orlando, the hero of. Stephen Greenblatt. Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard bltadwin.ru General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, he is the author of nine books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous.

The literary critic, theorist and Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt’s new book, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” is partly about an obsessive book collector, and it begins. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began) is a book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and National Book Award for Nonfiction. Greenblatt tells the story of how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century papal emissary and obsessive book. In “The Swerve,” the literary historian Stephen Greenblatt investigates why his book nearly died, how it was saved and what its rescue means to us. A world without Lucretius seemed.