The Humanist Return Reclaiming The Self In Literature 1st Edition Michael Bryson by Michael Bryson 9780367257408, 0367257408 instant download after payment.

This 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.