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The humanist (re)turn : reclaiming the self in literature
- Title
- The humanist (re)turn : reclaiming the self in literature / Michael Bryson.
- Author
- Bryson, Michael, 1964-
- Publication
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- vi, 212 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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." --
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 34
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 34.
- Alternative Title
- Reclaiming the self in literature
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10318
- ISBN
- 9780367257408
- 0367257408
- 9780429291609 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019020695
- OCLC
- 1099886868
- Author
- Bryson, Michael, 1964- author.
- Title
- The humanist (re)turn : reclaiming the self in literature / Michael Bryson.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 34Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 34.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10318