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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bryson, Michael, 1964- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, [2020]
Series:Routledge studies in contemporary literature ; 34.
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Table of 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.