Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor at Harvard University, where he teaches English and chairs the Concentration in History and Literature. He is the author of among other books, Renaissance Self-Fashioning, Shakespearean Negotiations, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, and (with Catherine Gallagher) Practicing New Historicism. He is also a founding editor of Representations, general editor of The Norton Shakespeare, and associate general editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Stephen Greenblatt sets out to explain his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him through surprising intellectual territory. It yields an extraordinary account of the rise and fall of Purgatory as both a belief and a lucrative institution - as well as a capacious new reading of the power of "Hamlet". In the mid-sixteenth century, English authorities abruptly changed the relationship between the living and dead. Declaring that Purgatory was a false "poem," they abolished the institutions and banned the practices that Christians relied on to ease the passage to Heaven for themselves and their dead loved ones. Greenblatt explores the fantastic adventure narratives, ghost stories, pilgrimages, and imagery by which a belief in a grisly "prison house of souls" had been shaped and reinforced in the Middle Ages. He probes the psychological benefits as well as the high costs of this belief and of its demolition. With the doctrine of Purgatory and the elaborate practices that grew up around it, the church had provided a powerful method of negotiating with the dead.
The Protestant attack on Purgatory destroyed this method for most people in England, but it did not eradicate the longings and fears that Catholic doctrine had for centuries focused and exploited. In his strikingly original interpretation, Greenblatt argues that the human desires to commune with, assist, and be rid of the dead were transformed by Shakespeare - consummate conjurer that he was - into the substance of several of his plays, above all the weirdly powerful "Hamlet". Thus, the space of Purgatory became the stage haunted by literature's most famous ghost. This book constitutes an extraordinary feat that could have been accomplished by only Stephen Greenblatt. It is at once a deeply satisfying reading of medieval religion, an innovative interpretation of the apparitions that trouble Shakespeare's tragic heroes, and an exploration of how a culture can be inhabited by its own spectral leftovers.
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memory is like warm heart,barely holding any impression at all 说的就是本人…
评分memory is like warm heart,barely holding any impression at all 说的就是本人…
评分读了部分章节,不得不说greenblatt的文本细读境界了得,我只是个孩子????
评分memory is like warm heart,barely holding any impression at all 说的就是本人…
评分读了部分章节,不得不说greenblatt的文本细读境界了得,我只是个孩子????
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