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Stephen Greenblatt

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American literary critic, theorist and scholar

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1943 · age 82
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Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000.

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Stephen Greenblatt
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As with modern totalitarian regimes, people developed techniques for speaking in code, addressing at one or more removes what most mattered to them.

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Populism may look like an embrace of the have-nots, but in reality it is a form of cynical exploitation.

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Tyrannical power is more easily exercised when it appears that the old order continues to exist.

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Awards 13

2025Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
2016Holberg International Memorial Prize
2012Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
2011National Book Award
2011National Book Award for Nonfiction
2011James Russell Lowell Prize
2010Wilbur Cross Medal
1988James Russell Lowell Prize
1982Guggenheim Fellowship
1974Guggenheim Fellowship
Rome Prize
Fulbright Scholarship
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order

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Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American literary historian and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015) and the general editor and a contributor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature.

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Born 1943 · age 82
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