Towards a New Literary Humanism

by Andy Mousley

List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Towards a New Literary Humanism; A.Mousley PART I: LITERATURE AS ERSATZ THEOLOGY: DEEP SELVES Introduction; A.Mousley Faith, Feeling, Reality: Anne Bront? as an Existentialist Poet; R.Styler Virginia Woolf, Sympathy and Feeling for the Human; K.Martin Being Human and being Animal in Twentieth-Century Horse-Whispering Writings: 'Word-Bound Creatures' and 'the Breath of Horses'; E.Graham Judith Butler and the Catachretic Human; I.Arteel PART II: SCEPTICISM, OR HUMANISM AT THE LIMIT Introduction; A.Mousley Shakespeare's Refusers: Humanism at the Limit; R.Chamberlain Why Eliot Killed Lydgate: 'Joyful Cruelty' in Middlemarch; S.Earnshaw Atomised: Mary Midgley and Michel Houellebecq; J.Wallace Humanity without Itself: Robert Musil, Giorgio Agamben and Posthumanism; I.Callus & S.Herbrechter PART III: LITERATURE, DEMOCRACY, HUMANISMS FROM BELOW Introduction; A.Mousley Mobilising Unbribable Life: The Politics of Contemporary Poetry in Bosnia and Herzegovina; D.Arsenijevi? HUM (-an, -ane, -anity, -anities, -anism, -anise); M.Robson Humanising Marx: Theory and Fiction in the Fin de Si?cle British Socialist Periodical; D.Mutch Civic Humanism: Said, Brecht and Coriolanus; N.Wood References Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349315303
• ISBN13: 9781349315307
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"