The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature: Reclaiming the Self in Literature (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature) - Hardcover

Bryson, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367257408 ISBN 13: 9780367257408

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Bryson is a professor of English at California State University, Northridge, specializing in Shakespeare, Milton, Biblical and Classical literature, literary theory, and the history of European poetry and criticism. His previous books include Love and its Critics, The Atheist Milton, and The Tyranny of Heaven.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367257408
• ISBN 13: 9780367257408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212