The rise and fall of Adam and Eve
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017].
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First edition.
ISBN
0393240800, 9780393240801
Physical Desc
419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Status
Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 233.14 GREENBL 2017
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
ISBN
0393240800, 9780393240801

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-391)and index.
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The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve explores the enduring story of humanity's first parents, and through them, of Western civilization. Tracking the tale into the deep past, to the Hebrews' exile in Babylon, Greenblatt explores the tremendous theological, artistic, and cultural creativity over the centuries that made Adam and Eve so profoundly resonant, and continues to make them, finally, so very "real" to millions of people even in the present. Both a hymn to human responsibility and a dark fable about human wretchedness, their story--told in only a few verses in an ancient book--has served as a mirror in which we seem to glimpse the whole, long history of human fears and desires. With the uncanny brilliance he previously brought to his depictions of William Shakespeare and Poggio Bracciolini (the humanist monk who is the protagonist of The Swerve), Greenblatt explores the intensely personal engagement of Augustine, Dürer, and Milton in this mammoth project of collective creation, While he also limns the diversity of the story's offspring: rich allegory, vicious misogyny, deep moral insight, and some of the greatest triumphs of art and literature. The biblical origin story, Greenblatt argues, is a model for what the humanities still have to offer: not the scientific nature of things, but rather a deep encounter with problems that have gripped our species for as long as we can recall and that continue to fascinate and trouble us today.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Greenblatt, S. (2017). The rise and fall of Adam and Eve (First edition.). W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-. 2017. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve. W.W. Norton & Company.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Greenblatt, Stephen, 1943-. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Greenblatt, Stephen. The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve First edition., W.W. Norton & Company, 2017.

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