![]() ![]() ![]() Yet The Swerve doesn’t promote the humanities to a broader public so much as it deviously precipitates the decline of the humanities, by dumbing down the complexities of history and religion in a way that sets a deeply unfortunate precedent. The Swerve won a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, and a top prize from the Modern Languages Association - all of which undoubtedly helped to bring Greenblatt's lifetime of great work to the attention of the Holberg Prize committee. (The UK title is The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began.) ![]() But one book, more than all his previous publications, propelled Greenblatt to an internationally visible position as public intellectual: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, published in 2011. ![]() Greenblatt received it based on his "distinctive and defining role in the field of literary studies and his influential voice in the humanities over four decades" - particularly in the fields of Shakespeare, 16th- and 17th-century English literature, and the critical approach known as "new historicism."įor literature scholars around the world, he is something of a rock star, whose influence reaches far beyond early modern studies. Last month, Stephen Greenblatt, a Harvard English professor, won one of the world’s largest awards for scholarly work in the humanities: the 2016 Holberg Prize, which comes with about $735,000 in prize money from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research. ![]()
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