Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Bryson, Michael, 1964-

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
• ©2020

Items in the Library & Off-site

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

Subjects

• Self in literature
• Humanism in literature
• Literature > Philosophy
• Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc
• Characters and characteristics in literature
• Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature
• Literature > Theory, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Reclaiming the Self: Transcending Postmodern Fragmentation -- Reclaiming the Self: Transcending Postmodern Fragmentation -- 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.

ISBN

• 9780367257408
• 0367257408
• 9780429291609 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019020695
• 99981836143

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries