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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began [1]) is a 2011 book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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Sep 4, 2012 · 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."
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Goodreads
Sep 26, 2011 · One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
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Stephen Greenblatt’s The Swerve: How the World Became Modern was published in 2011 and describes how the rediscovery of an ancient poem launches the Renaissance and helps shape the modern age. The Swerve won the Pulitzer Prize, the …
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern Kindle Edition
Sep 26, 2011 · 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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The Swerve | Stephen Greenblatt | W. W. Norton & Company
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller • A Kirkus Reviews 'Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far)' 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 ...
The Swerve – Stephen Greenblatt - Harvard University
The copying and translation of this ancient book-the greatest discovery of the greatest book-hunter of his age-fueled the Renaissance, inspiring artists such as Botticelli and thinkers such as Giordano Bruno; shaped the thought of Galileo and Freud, Darwin and Einstein; and had a revolutionary influence on writers such as Montaigne and ...
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Sep 26, 2011 · From the gardens of the ancient philosophers to the dark chambers of monastic scriptoria during the Middle Ages to the cynical, competitive court of a corrupt and dangerous pope, Greenblatt brings...
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Sep 26, 2011 · One of the world's most celebrated scholars, Stephen Greenblatt has crafted both an innovative work of history and a thrilling story of discovery, in which one manuscript, plucked from a thousand years of neglect, changed the course of human thought and made possible the world as we know it.
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Book Summary and Reviews of The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
A book-length essay on racism in American films, by "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review).