Stephen Greenblatt

Broschiertes Buch

The Swerve

How the Renaissance Began

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

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

Rezensionen

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