The humanist (re)turn

The humanist (re)turn: reclaiming the self in literature

by Bryson, Michael

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"The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study, Michael Bryson argues for this renewal of perspective by covering literature written in different languages, times, and places, calling for a return to a humanism, which focuses on literary characters and their psychological and existential strugg…

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  • Full title :The humanist (re)turn : reclaiming the self in literature / Michael Bryson.

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"The exciting new book argues for a renewed emphasis on humanism--contrary to the trend of post-humanism, or what Neema Parvini calls "the anti-humanism" of the last several decades of literary and theoretical scholarship. In this trail-blazing study, Michael Bryson argues for this renewal of perspective by covering literature written in different languages, times, and places, calling for a return to a humanism, which focuses on literary characters and their psychological and existential struggles--not struggles of competition, but of connection, the struggles of fragmented, incomplete individuals for integration, wholeness, and unity." --.

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  • Publication Date:2020

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  • Description:vi, 212 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780367257408, 0367257408
  • oclc:on1130276105

Table of Contents

Reclaiming the Self: Transcending Postmodern Fragmentation -- Transcendence Through Participation and Action in the Bhagavad Gita -- The Binding of Criseyde and Troilus: Success and Failure in the Attempt to Transcend the "love of kynde" in Troilus and Criseyde -- Success and Failure of Transcendence in Christopher Marlowe's Dido Queene of Carthage and William Shakespeare's Othello -- Transcendence as Disobedience and Choice in Clarissa, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre -- Transcendence as Participation: the Union of Masculine and Feminine in Goethe's Faust -- Reclaiming A Solemn Bequest: Transcending Fragmentation, Recovering Trust, and Returning from Exile in Silas Marner -- Transcendence Through Transgression and Kenosis: Sin as Salvation and Self-Emptying in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood.

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Subjects

17.80 literary theory: general Characters and characteristics in liter… Criticism, interpretation, etc Humanism in literature Humanisme dans la littérature Humanismus Literatur Literature - History and criticism - Th… Literature -- History And Criticism Literature -- Philosophy Literature -- Theory, etc Littérature -- Histoire et critique Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature Psychologie Self in literature Transcendence Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature Wissenschaft

Writers

Bryson, Michael

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