Humanist (Re)Turn: Reclaiming the Self in Literature

<p>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.</p>