Critical Self-fashioning: Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism

aesthetic practice analysis argues artefact Bal des Ardents body CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ Carlo Ginzburg causal Celestina century chiasmus circulation of social concept context critical CRUZ The University cultural demonic possession dialectic of modernity discourse Durkheim early modern excess exorcism explanation fact Fernando de Rojas Foucault function functionalist Geertz Gilman Ginzburg Greenblatt 1988 Harriot Harsnett heart historian Historicism Historicist Huizinga human idea identity ideological interpretation intertextuality Invisible Bullets King Lear La Celestina language Lear's literary texts literature London meaning medieval metaphor Michel de Certeau Michel Foucault mimetic mode narrative notion past perspective play poetic political question reader reading reality refers Renaissance Self-Fashioning René Girard representation resonance rhetoric ritual Rojas sacrificial Shakespeare Shylock Sinfield social energy society sources Stephen Greenblatt story structure subversion symbolic textual theory tion traditional University Library UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA/SANTA witchcraft Wittgenstein 1993 wonder writing