Podcast Episodes featuring Stephen Greenblatt
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74 | Stephen Greenblatt on Stories, History, and Cultural Poetics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas - November 25, 2019 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsAn infinite number of things happen; we bring structure and meaning to the world by making art and telling stories about it. Every work of literature created by human beings comes out of an historical and cultural context, and drawing connections between art and its context can be illum...
A Conversation with Bill Rauch and Stephen Greenblatt
Act II @ A.R.T. - January 12, 2019 23:23 - 49 minutesAn interview between Director Bill Rauch and Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt in anticipation of the 2018/2019 A.R.T./OSF production of "Othello." Introduction by A.R.T. Editor and Assistant Dramaturg Robert Duffley. Recorded January 9, 2019 at Harvard University's Farkas Hall. Podcast host a...
Stephen Greenblatt | The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
Free Library Podcast - July 16, 2018 10:26 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 106 ratingsWatch the video here. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, Stephen Greenblatt is widely acclaimed as the father of New Historicism, which strives to understand works of literature within their historical and social contexts. His other...
Stephen Greenblatt & Tony Kushner: Adam and Eve in the Teeth of Time
Library Talks - November 28, 2017 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 307 ratingsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning literary historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright discuss Greenblatt's latest book, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, "a life history of one of the most extraordinary stories ever told." Exploring the power of narrative to travel from myth into reality, Greenbl...
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Town Hall Seattle Arts & Culture Series - October 05, 2017 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsComprising 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. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt, a Harvard professor and general editor to The Norton Anthology of English Literat...
118. Stephen Greenblatt (humanities scholar) – Irresistible Fictions
Think Again – a Big Think Podcast - September 30, 2017 10:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 556 ratingsAn ancient, one-and-a-half-page-story that just won't let us go. Humanities scholar Stephen Greenblatt and host Jason Gots discuss how Adam and Eve have shaped and been shaped by Western art, culture, and science, in this, Big Think's latest brain-fertilizing podcast. Greenblatt is the Cogan Uni...
SCT #32: Interview with Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory with Neema Parvini - November 11, 2016 11:16 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsAhead of the publication of his forthcoming book Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory (for the Arden Shakespeare and Theory series), Neema interviews new historicism's most influential exponent, Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard). Topics include the cultural and political moment of the late 1960s, Lo...