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74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics

2019-11-25 · 66 min · episode 74 · 9 entities

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An infinite number of things happen; we bring structure and meaning to the world by making art and telling stories about it. Every work of literature created by human beings comes out of an historical and cultural context, and drawing connections between art and its context can be illuminating for both. Today's guest, Stephen Greenblatt, is one of the world's most celebrated literary scholars, famous for helping to establish the New Historicism school of criticism, which he also refers to as "cultural poetics." We talk about how art becomes entangled with the politics of its day, and how we can learn about ourselves and other cultures by engaging with stories and their milieu. Support Mindscape on  Patreon . Stephen Greenblatt received his Ph.D. in English from Yale University. He is currently Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. He has specialized in Renaissance and Shakespeare studies, but has also written on topics as diverse as Adam and Eve and the ancient Roman poet Lucretius. He has served as the editor of the  Norton Anthology of English Literature  and the  Norton Shakespeare , and is founder of the journal  Representations . Among his many honors are the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation. His most recent book is  Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics. Web site Harvard web page Wikipedia Amazon.com author page Online courses at edX Talk on Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare