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

 · Stephen Greenblatt is a literary scholar specializing in Shakespeare. He is also a cultured despiser of Christianity; indeed, it appears, of all religion. For him, the world become modern is the world discarding God; the means by which it became modern was the discovery and dissemination of Lucretius' De rerum natura in the/5(K).  · Sept. 27, The literary critic, theorist and Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt’s new book, “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” is Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · As Stephen Greenblatt explains in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, the term “swerve” comes from the Roman poet-philosopher Lucretius who used it in the first century BC in his book-length poem De rerum natura (On the Nature of Things). Greenblatt writes that Lucretius.

Stephen Greenblatt. Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard www.doorway.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. 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. 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. The Swerve Subtitle How the World Became Modern Author Stephen Greenblatt. a single book to change the world. Stephen Greenblatt's new non-fiction wonder called, The Swerve, is part adventure. Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature, he is the author of eleven books, including Tyrant, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve: The Story that Created Us, The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.