新历史主义Greenblatt程序.ppt

Stephen Greenblatt?(born November 7, 1943) is an American literary critic, theorist, scholar, and?Pulitzer Prize winning author. He firstly came up with the name “new historicism” in Genre in 1982. And he is regarded by many as one of the founders of?New Historicism. Greenblatt has since taught at?Uniersity of Califonia,Berkeley and Harvard Uniersity. Greenblatt, Stephen Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1980《文艺复兴时期的自我塑造》 Shakespearean Negotiations 《莎士比亚式的协商》 The Improvisation of Power(1994)  ---Stephen Greenblatt “Improvisation,”according to Greenblatt,is the ability both to capitalize on the unforeseen and to transform given materials into one’s own senario.”Or it is the calculated grasp of the “preexisting political,religious,even psychic structures” to one’s own adavantage. 格林布拉特解释为：“对未曾预料的事物加以利用，并把已知材料为己所用的能力”。或指对“先在的政治，宗教，甚至心理结构加以蓄意的把握，使之对己有利”。 This essay is a demonstration of such subversion impulses and power struggle, for an individual play mediates between the mode of theatre, understood in its historical specificity, and elements of society out of which that theatre has been differentiated. In a way, Greenblatt combines the textualism of deconstruction as well as the historicism of Marxism. Othello Othello, the Moor: A general in the Venetian military. Brabantio, a Venetian senator, Gratianos brother, and Desdemonas father Desdemona, Othellos wife and daughter of Brabantio Iago, Othellos ensign and Emilias husband, a villain. He hides his real nature under the veil of honesty. Roderigo, a dissolute Venetian, in love with Desdemona Cassio, Othellos lieutenant. (1). Desdemona’s submission to Othello’s story ◆Textual Detail (2). Brabantio’s rejection of her marriage Textual Detail “我看出我现在是有两方面的义务”（p266) 她援引了职责转换，说她的婚姻是把顺从转移到了另外一个男人，并不是偷窃或背叛。 Othello’s “looks” 黑肤色象征Othello作为一个永远的局外人地位无法抹去的证据，也暗示Desdemona 的婚姻是个丑闻。(p267) (3).Desdemona’s declarations of love Textual Detail “Th