When I saw the title of Stephen Greenblatt’s new book ... as a leader of the movement in literary criticism known as the New Historicism, Greenblatt is famous for treating Renaissance authors ...

“For me,” Stephen Greenblatt once told an interviewer ... figure in academic literary studies—was referring to the birth of the so-called New Historicism, the “school” of criticism that he founded and ...

Greenblatt is the Harvard Shakespeare expert who co-founded new historicism, the lit-crit practice that seeks to place works in their historical context. The 45th president is not mentioned ...

Donald Trump may go unmentioned in Stephen ... White House. Greenblatt, an eminent Harvard Shakespeare scholar, was a university rock star in the ’80s and ’90s when New Historicism was ...

Stephen Greenblatt is that rare thing: a formidable scholar with mass appeal. He launched himself into the firmament of contemporary literary theorists as a pioneer of New Historicism. Many ...

New historicism was a 1980s thing ... The term may have been coined by Stephen Greenblatt in an essay of 1982; if so it was already a restrike, minted from a prototype used by Wesley Morris in 1972 or ...

Now, Lucretius and his poem are back in the cultural spotlight thanks to “The Swerve,” a new book by Harvard English professor Stephen Greenblatt ... known as New Historicism, which argued ...

Eager-eyed Stephen Greenblatt, author of the just-published ... He is considered the godfather of the "new historicism," a branch of literary criticism that examines works of literature within ...

For two days, I was enthralled by Stephen Greenblatt’s latest offering ... of university spaces and studying literature, of New Historicism – a reading method he has developed – and of ...

Stephen Greenblatt is the next author to come to ... making him a founding father of New Historicism and also a Pulitzer Prize-winning author for his most recent work, "The Swerve: How the World ...

The winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction talks to Noah Charney about his friendship with poet Robert Pinsky and having to rewrite The Swerve about ‘10,000 times.’ The Swerve: How ...