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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

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By (author): Stephen Greenblatt

Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity''s first parents. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.

Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very real to millions of people even in the present. With the uncanny brilliance he previously brought to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of The Swerve), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Durer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation, while he also limns the diversity of the story''s offspring: rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature.

The biblical origin story, Greenblatt argues, is a model for what the humanities still have to offer: not the scientific nature of things, but rather a deep encounter with problems that have gripped our species for as long as we can recall and that continue to fascinate and trouble us today.

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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 777g
  • Dimensions: 165 x 244mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Sep 2017
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780393240801

About Stephen Greenblatt

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.

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