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He has served as the john cogan university professor of the humanities at harvard university since 2000. He is the author of fourteen books, including tyrant. How shakespeare became shakespeare and the classic university text renaissance. How the world became modern ebook written by stephen greenblatt. One of the worlds most celebrated scholars, stephen greenblatt has c. The swerve how the world became modern 0393343405 by. Also general editor of the norton anthology of english literature, he is the author of eleven books, including the swerve. How the world became modern begins by recounting greenblatt s chance discovery, while he was still in college, of. As greenblatt s story reminds us, there have been other, much grimmer. How the world became modern received the 2011 national book award, and demonstrates how something as seemingly insignificant as a poem could influence the.
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