Format:
vi, 212 Seiten
ISBN:
9780367257408
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in contemporary literature
Content:
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.
Content:
"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." --
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429291609
Language:
English
Keywords:
Literarische Gestalt
;
Selbst
;
Humanismus
;
Literatur
;
Philosophie
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