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

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The Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature is written by Michael Bryson and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1000606503 (ISBN 10) and 9781000606508 (ISBN 13).

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.