Stephen Greenblatt

The Swerve

How the Renaissance Began

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Produktbeschreibung

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2012Almost six hundred years ago, a short, genial man took a very old manuscript off a library shelf.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 678443
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 131mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 282g
• ISBN-13: 9780099572442
• ISBN-10: 0099572443
• Artikelnr.: 34562670

Autorenporträt

Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He is the author of fifteen books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, which won the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, as well as the New York Times bestseller Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare and the classic university text Renaissance Self-Fashioning. A prize-winning author and celebrated scholar, he has been studying, thinking and writing about Renaissance literature for his entire working life.

Rezensionen

Superbly readable... An exciting story, and Greenblatt tells it with his customary clarity and verve Robert Douglas-Fairhurst Daily Telegraph