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The Swerve : How the World Became Modern Paperback Stephen Greenb

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Publication Name
Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
ISBN
9780393343403
Book Title
Swerve : How the World Became Modern
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Item Length
8.2 in
Publication Year
2012
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
0.9 in
Author
Stephen Greenblatt
Genre
Science, History, Philosophy
Topic
Civilization, Europe / Renaissance, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, History & Surveys / Renaissance, History
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction * Winner of the National Book Award * New York Times Bestseller Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page-turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word.

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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393343405
ISBN-13
9780393343403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117272084

Product Key Features

Book Title
Swerve : How the World Became Modern
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Civilization, Europe / Renaissance, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, History & Surveys / Renaissance, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Science, History, Philosophy
Author
Stephen Greenblatt
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Every tale of the preservation of intellectual history should be as rich and satisfying as Stephen Greenblatt's history of the reclamation and acclamation of Lucretius's De rerum natura from obscurity., In this outstandingly constructed assessment of the birth of philosophical modernity, renowned Shakespeare scholar Greenblatt deftly transports reader to the dawn of the Renaissance...Readers from across the humanities will find this enthralling account irresistible., It's fascinating to watch Greenblatt trace the dissemination of these ideas through 15th-century Europe and beyond, thanks in good part to Bracciolini's recovery of Lucretius' poem., The ideas in The Swerve are tucked, cannily, inside a quest narrative. . . . The details that Mr. Greenblatt supplies throughout The Swerve are tangy and exact. . . . There is abundant evidence here of what is Mr. Greenblatt's great and rare gift as a writer: an ability, to borrow a phrase from The Swerve, to feel fully 'the concentrated force of the buried past.', Pleasure may or may not be the true end of life, but for book lovers, few experiences can match the intellectual-aesthetic enjoyment delivered by a well-wrought book. In the world of serious nonfiction, Stephen Greenblatt is a pleasure maker without peer., In The Swerve, the literary historian Stephen Greenblatt investigates why [Lucretius' ] book nearly dies, how it was saved and what its rescue means to us., Can a poem change the world? Harvard professor and bestselling Shakespeare biographer Greenblatt ably shows in this mesmerizing intellectual history that it can. A richly entertaining read about a radical ancient Roman text that shook Renaissance Europe and inspired shockingly modern ideas (like the atom) that still reverberate today., [The Swerve] is thrilling, suspenseful tale that left this reader inspired and full of questions about the ongoing project known as human civilization., Every tale of the preservation of intellectual history should be as rich and satisfying as Stephen Greenblatt's history of the reclamation and acclamation of Lucretius's De rerum natura from obscurity., The Swerve is one of those brilliant works of non-fiction that's so jam-packed with ideas and stories it literally boggles the mind., In The Swerve, the literary historian Stephen Greenblatt investigates why [Lucretius'] book nearly dies, how it was saved and what its rescue means to us., In this gloriously learned page-turner, both biography and intellectual history, Harvard Shakespearean scholar Greenblatt turns his attention to the front end of the Renaissance as the origin of Western culture's foundation: the free questioning of truth., But Swerve is an intense, emotional telling of a true story, one with much at stake for all of us. And the further you read, the more astonishing it becomes. It's a chapter in how we became what we are, how we arrived at the worldview of the present. No one can tell the whole story, but Greenblatt seizes on a crucial pivot, a moment of recovery, of transmission, as amazing as anything in fiction., A fascinating, intelligent look at what may well be the most historically resonant book-hunt of all time.
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940.2/1

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  • Great Book

    If you are interested early Renaissance history and Greek philosophy but you still want an enjoyable read, this is the book for you. It is about the rediscovery of the Roman writer Lucretius's great poem On the Nature of Things, made by an unemployed papal scribe (unemployed because the pope was unfornately arrested and imprisoned ). With time on his hands the indefatigable Poggio Bracciolino indulged his passion to search out lost classical manuscripts. He found one of the greatest , the famous celebration of Epicurean philospy. Greenblatt's tale of the search and then influence of this masterpiece on the modern worl is told with clarity and wit.

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  • The Swerve, How the World Became Modern

    Well written (Pulitzer Prize) account of an important era of Ancient Greek and Roman history, that indeed changed the future of the world.

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