Book Description
A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the
classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the
twenty-first century.
With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation
of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney''s
award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton''s Paradise Lost, and
More''s Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the
nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson
and Barrett Bro
內容簡介:
Book Description
A legendary bestseller for more than forty years, this is the
classic survey to the field from the Middle Ages to the
twenty-first century.
With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens its representation
of essential works in all genres, ranging from Seamas Heaney''s
award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton''s Paradise Lost, and
More''s Utopia to the great poets and prose writers of the
nineteenth century—Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson
and Barrett Browning—to twentieth-century classics of a truly
global English literature—Conrad''s Heart of Darkness, Woolf''s A
Room of One''s Own, Achebe''s Things Fall Apart, and Friel''s
Translations, to name but a few. Color plates—over 75 in all—and
thematic clusters of brief and historically significant texts bring
to life the cultural concerns of each period. Concise glosses and
annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes,
timelines, and selected bibliographies help readers understand and
enjoy the rich diversity of English literature.
Book Dimension
Height mm 225 Width mm 173
關於作者:
Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt born November 7, 1943, is an award-winning
literary critic, theorist and scholar. Greenblatt is regarded by
many as the “father” of new historicism, a set of critical
practices that he often refers to as "cultural poetics;" his works
have been highly influential since the early 1980s when he
introduced the term. Greenblatt has written and edited numerous
books and articles relevant to new historicism, the study of
culture, Renaissance studies and Shakespeare studies and is
considered to be an expert in these fields. He is also co-founder
of the literary-cultural journal Representations, which often
publishes articles by new historicists. Educated at Yale University
and Pembroke College, Greenblatt was a professor at the University
of California, Berkeley for 28 years before taking his current
position at Harvard University. He has guest lectured at
universities around the world. Greenblatt shares many anecdotes
about his academic and non-academic experiences in interviews and
in his writing.