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The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature provides readers
with a comprehensive reassessment of the value of humanism in an
intellectual landscape. Offering contributions by leading
international scholars, this volume seeks to define literature as a
core expressive form and an essential constitutive element of newly
reformulated understandings of humanism. While the value of
humanism has recently been dominated by anti-humanist and
post-humanist perspectives which focused on the flaws and
exclusions of previous definitions of humanism, this volume
examines the human problems, dilemmas, fears, and aspirations
expressed in literature, as a fundamentally humanist art form and
activity. Divided into three overarching categories, this companion
will explore the histories, developments, debates, and
contestations of humanism in literature, and deliver fresh
definitions of "the new humanism" for the humanities. This focus
aims to transcend the boundaries of a world in which human life is
all too often defined in terms of restrictions-political, economic,
theological, intellectual-and lived in terms of obedience,
conformity, isolation, and fear. The Routledge Companion to
Humanism and Literature will provide invaluable support to
humanities students and scholars alike seeking to navigate the
relevance and resilience of humanism across world cultures and
literatures.
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.
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.
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