Stephen Greenblatt―Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World―investigates the life of one of humankind’s greatest stories.
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. Comprising only a few ancien...
Stephen Greenblatt―Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Swerve and Will in the World―investigates the life of one of humankind’s greatest stories.
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. Comprising only a few ancient verses, the story of Adam and Eve has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of our fears and desires, as both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness.
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. 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.
作者简介
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Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare, he is also the author of thirteen books, including The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve; The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory...
Stephen Greenblatt is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and The Norton Shakespeare, he is also the author of thirteen books, including The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve; The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World; and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited six collections of criticism, is the co-author (with Charles Mee) of a play, Cardenio, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. He was named the 2016 Holberg Prize Laureate. Additional honors include the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize, for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Philosophical Society.
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作为教外人士看这么多人煞有介事的努力让创世纪变成一个毫无疑点的真实历史不免觉得有点儿荒谬，不过这个问题的关键不在于真不真，而是在于太长时间里太多的人相信这是真的。之前看写吴宓那本书里他的宗教观也有点儿这个意思，虽然明知可能是传说甚至有点儿迷信，但因为对社会道德有益所以姑且存之。这本书的前半部分比后面好看，对于圣经出现以前的不同文明对圣经的影响之类的。中间一大段关于《失乐园》的解读我都怀疑是不是这本... 作为教外人士看这么多人煞有介事的努力让创世纪变成一个毫无疑点的真实历史不免觉得有点儿荒谬，不过这个问题的关键不在于真不真，而是在于太长时间里太多的人相信这是真的。之前看写吴宓那本书里他的宗教观也有点儿这个意思，虽然明知可能是传说甚至有点儿迷信，但因为对社会道德有益所以姑且存之。这本书的前半部分比后面好看，对于圣经出现以前的不同文明对圣经的影响之类的。中间一大段关于《失乐园》的解读我都怀疑是不是这本书的主旨是不是就在此，后1/3有点儿枯燥，也比较散。最后附录里作者转述的一些古代的文献或者文字里对于伊甸园和两性的观念有些非常颠覆，不过其实也不奇怪，毕竟在基督教之前人类对各种问题的思考都已经非常丰富了。 (展开)