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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Stephen GreenblattPublish date:2018-12-04Pages:432
Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393356267ISBN-10:393356264UPC:9780393356267Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:World, Christianity, JudaismBook Topic:HistorySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCZGRV1E8S

The most influential story in Western cultural history, the biblical account of Adam and Eve is now treated either as the sacred possession of the faithful or as the butt of secular jokes. Here, acclaimed scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores it with profound appreciation for its cultural and psychological power as literature. From the birth of the Hebrew Bible to the awe-inspiring contributions of Augustine, D rer, and Milton in bringing Adam and Eve to vivid life, Greenblatt unpacks the story's many interpretations and consequences over time. Rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, narrow literalism, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature: all can be counted as children of our "first" parents.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393356267ISBN-10:393356264UPC:9780393356267Book Category:History, ReligionBook Subcategory:World, Christianity, JudaismBook Topic:HistorySize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.75Product ID:SCZGRV1E8S
Greenblatt, Stephen: - 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 2011 National Book Award and the 2012 Pulitzer Prize); Shakespeare's Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture; and Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for both Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England and The Swerve, the Sapegno Prize, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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