The Resource The rise and fall of Adam and Eve, Stephen Greenblatt
The rise and fall of Adam and Eve, Stephen Greenblatt
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The item The rise and fall of Adam and Eve, Stephen Greenblatt represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
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- Stephen Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very 'real' to millions of people even in the present
- "Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents, and through them, of Western civilization. Tracking the tale into the deep past, to the Hebrews' exile in Babylon, Greenblatt explores the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural creativity over the centuries that made Adam and Eve so profoundly resonant, and continues to make them, finally, so very "real" to millions of people even in the present. Both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness, their story--told in only a few verses in an ancient book--has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of human fears and desires. With the uncanny brilliance he previously brought to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of The Swerve), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation, While he also limns the diversity of the story's offspring: rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature. The biblical origin story, Greenblatt argues, is a model for what the humanities still have to offer: not the scientific nature of things, but rather a deep encounter with problems that have gripped our species for as long as we can recall and that continue to fascinate and trouble us today."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- Prologue: In the house of worship
- Bare bones
- By the waters of Babylon
- Clay tablets
- The life of Adam and Eve
- In the bathhouse
- Original freedom, original sin
- Eve' s murder
- Embodiments
- Chastity and its discontents
- The politics of paradise
- Becoming real
- Men before Adam
- Falling away
- Darwin's doubts
- Epilogue: In the forest of Eden
- Isbn
- 9780393240801
- Label
- The rise and fall of Adam and Eve
- Title
- The rise and fall of Adam and Eve
- Statement of responsibility
- Stephen Greenblatt
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- Stephen Greenblatt explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents. Tracking the tale into the deep past, Greenblatt uncovers the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural investment over centuries that made these fictional figures so profoundly resonant in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim worlds and, finally, so very 'real' to millions of people even in the present
- "Bolder, even, than the ambitious books for which Stephen Greenblatt is already renowned, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents, and through them, of Western civilization. Tracking the tale into the deep past, to the Hebrews' exile in Babylon, Greenblatt explores the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural creativity over the centuries that made Adam and Eve so profoundly resonant, and continues to make them, finally, so very "real" to millions of people even in the present. Both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness, their story--told in only a few verses in an ancient book--has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of human fears and desires. With the uncanny brilliance he previously brought to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of The Swerve), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation, While he also limns the diversity of the story's offspring: rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature. The biblical origin story, Greenblatt argues, is a model for what the humanities still have to offer: not the scientific nature of things, but rather a deep encounter with problems that have gripped our species for as long as we can recall and that continue to fascinate and trouble us today."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Greenblatt, Stephen
- Dewey number
- 233/.14
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BS1237
- LC item number
- .G74 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Eve
- Adam
- Eden
- Fall of man
- Anthropology
- Adam
- Eve
- Anthropology
- Eden
- Fall of man
- Label
- The rise and fall of Adam and Eve, Stephen Greenblatt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-391) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: In the house of worship -- Bare bones -- By the waters of Babylon -- Clay tablets -- The life of Adam and Eve -- In the bathhouse -- Original freedom, original sin -- Eve' s murder -- Embodiments -- Chastity and its discontents -- The politics of paradise -- Becoming real -- Men before Adam -- Falling away -- Darwin's doubts -- Epilogue: In the forest of Eden
- Control code
- ocn971354359
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393240801
- Lccn
- 2017014743
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
- Label
- The rise and fall of Adam and Eve, Stephen Greenblatt
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-391) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Prologue: In the house of worship -- Bare bones -- By the waters of Babylon -- Clay tablets -- The life of Adam and Eve -- In the bathhouse -- Original freedom, original sin -- Eve' s murder -- Embodiments -- Chastity and its discontents -- The politics of paradise -- Becoming real -- Men before Adam -- Falling away -- Darwin's doubts -- Epilogue: In the forest of Eden
- Control code
- ocn971354359
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780393240801
- Lccn
- 2017014743
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations (chiefly color)
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