Towards a New Literary Humanism - by A Mousley (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Literature cultivates "deep selves" for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, while also developing a "new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature"--

Book Synopsis

Literature cultivates 'deep selves' for whom books matter because they take over from religion fundamental questions about the meaning of existence. This volume embraces and questions this perspective, whilst also developing a 'new humanist' critical vocabulary which specifies, and therefore opens to debate, the human significance of literature.

Review Quotes

'This book stands out as an intervention in post-poststructuralist debates, alongside the 'new aesthetics', 'singularities', the 'new ethics', and other efforts to formulate the critical trajectories of the new millennium, and will have a significant impact on the way literary studies will shape its theoretical debates in the near future.' - Tim Woods, Professor in English and American Studies, Aberystwyth University, UK

About the Author

ANDY MOUSLEY is Senior Lecturer in English at De Montfort University, UK. Recent publications include Re-Humanising Shakespeare (2007), Critical Humanisms (2003, with Martin Halliwell), and articles on humanism and posthumanism, and on autobiography, in the journals Textual Practice, Shakespeare, and postmedieval. He is series co-editor of Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature.