This volume explores the impossible dilemma facing francophone intellectuals writing in the lead-up to decolonisation: how could they redefine their culture, and the 'humanity' they felt had been denied by the colonial project, in terms that did not replicate the French thinking…
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Posthuman Bodies is a collection of essays that takes up, in a mostly affirmative way, various challenges to the coherence of the "human body"as a figure through which culture is processed and oriented. In the essay that opens this volume, we argue that a posthuman condition is …
"It is a collection of essays that takes up, in a mostly affirmative way, various challenges to the coherence of the "human body" as a figure through which culture is processed and oriented." Partial contents : The end of the world of White Men ; Class and its close relations : …
Leo Spitzer ; or, how to read a text -- The continuity of Western literature : Ernest Robert Curtis -- The evolution of Western literature : Erich Auerbach -- Albert Béguin and the origins of literary modernism -- Academic criticism at its best : Jean Rousset -- C.S. Lewis and t…
"The Twentieth-Century Humanist Critics revisits the work and place of eight scholars roughly contemporary with Anglo-American New Criticism: Leo Spitzer, Ernst Robert Curtius, Erich Auerbach, Albert Beguin, Jean Rousset, C. S. Lewis, F. O. Matthiessen, and Northrop Frye. First,…
