One of the world\u2019s foremost experts on Shakespeare is coming to Northern Arizona University to discuss the implications of the Adam and Eve story.<\/p>\n
Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, is presenting\u00a0\u201cGetting Real: The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve\u201d at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24, at Cline Library Assembly Hall. The Cline Lecture in the Humanities event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n
As one of the founders of \u201cnew historicism,\u201d Greenblatt contributes prominent scholarship emphasizing a literary work\u2019s original historic context and its connections to the present. He presents how Renaissance artists gave Adam and Eve physical bodies, psychological depth, a complex marriage and other attributes of real people, which had unexpected consequences for how people lived their lives for centuries.<\/p>\n
Greenblatt is a renowned literary critic and scholar with expertise in Renaissance and Shakespeare studies. He has published 12 books, including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning \u201cThe Swerve: How the World Became Modern,\u201d and \u201cWill in the World,\u201d the best-selling biography of William Shakespeare. He is the recipient of the Mellon Foundation Distinguished Humanist Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, Harvard University\u2019s Cabot Fellowship and more.<\/p>\n
NAU\u2019s Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, College of Arts and Letters, Department of English, Martin-Springer Institute, Department of History, Honors Program, University College, Office of the Provost and the School of Art are sponsoring the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"