The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature: Reclaiming the Self in Literature

ISBN-13: 9781032240701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Michael Bryson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments

Chapter One

Reclaiming the Self

Chapter Two

Transcendence Through Participation and Action in the Bhagavad Gita

Chapter Three

The Binding of Criseyde and Troilus

Chapter Four

Success and Failure of Transcendence in Christopher Marlowe’s Dido Queene of Carthage and William Shakespeare’s Othello

Chapter Five

Transcendence as Disobedience and Choice in Clarissa, Pride and Prejudice, and Jane Eyre...

Chapter Six

Transcendence as Participation

Chapter Seven

Reclaiming A Solemn Bequest: Transcending Fragmentation, Recovering Trust, and Returning from Exile in Silas Marner

Chapter Eight

Transcendence Through Transgression and Kenosis

Epilogue: What Is to Come?

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

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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