spects, Greenblatt's critique of Todorov proves unsatisfying. As a cohesive monograph, Marvelous Possessions also dissatisfies. Wonder fails to unify fully the four interpretive essays in this volume. In a late, climactic moment, Greenblatt observes that the experience of wonder can prompt two opposed sets of judgments, descriptions, and actions. Marvelous Possessions. tells a tragic story but returns over and over to aspects of life beyond despair: “curiosity, magnanimity, generosity, self-criticism, the will to experiment, the dream of justice” (xi). Stephen Greenblatt’s book contributes to our wonder and is a gift that keeps on giving in an attempt. An amazingly original set of observations and thoughts, opening new ways of seeing the encounters between Europeans and the people of other continents, and the ensuing history. Stephen Greenblatt's writing is superb, erudite, expressive, alive, and full of feeling/5(19).
MARVELOUS POSSESSIONS The Wonder of the New World With a New Preface stephen greenblatt The Clarendon Lectures (Oxford University) and The Carpenter Lectures (University of Chicago) Marvelous possessions: the wonder of the New World Stephen Greenblatt, " Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the Sixteenth Century," in. by. Stephen Greenblatt. · Rating details · ratings · 14 reviews. Marvelous Possessions is a study of the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages. This study examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and the early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New World. In a series of readings of travel narratives, judicial documents and official documents, Greenblatt shows that "the experience of the marvellous", central to both art and philosophy, was yoked by.
Marvelous Possessions examines the ways in which Europeans of the late Middle Ages and early modern period represented non-European peoples and took possession of their lands, in particular the New. spects, Greenblatt's critique of Todorov proves unsatisfying. As a cohesive monograph, Marvelous Possessions also dissatisfies. Wonder fails to unify fully the four interpretive essays in this volume. In a late, climactic moment, Greenblatt observes that the experience of wonder can prompt two opposed sets of judgments, descriptions, and actions. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'The wonder of the New World.'"—Anthony Pagden, Times Literary Supplement "By far the most intellectually gripping and penetrating discussion of the relationship between intruders and natives is provided by Stephen Greenblatt's Marvelous Possessions."—Simon Schama, The New.
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