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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2020]
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| Series: | Routledge studies in contemporary literature ;
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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.