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Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one's own narrow interpretive community. The distinguished essayists in this volume find Daniel R. Schwarz's pluralistic, self-questioning approach to what he calls "reading texts and reading lives" quite relevant to the current historical moment and political situation. A legendary scholar of modernist literature, Schwarz's critical principles are a healthy corrective to cultural hubris.The essayists treat works ranging from fictions by Joyce, Conrad, Morrison, and Woolf to the poetry to Yeats, to Holocaust literature, to the environmental writings of Wendell Berry, to the photographs of Lee Friedlander. The authors focus on different works, but they follow Schwarz in stressing formal elements most often associated with traditional realism while keeping an eye on historical and author-centered approaches. The essayists also follow Schwarz in their emphasis on narrative cohesion and in how they look for signs of agency among characters who possess the will to alter their fate, even in a seemingly random universe such as the one depicted by Conrad. Readers with eyes to ethics and aesthetics, they follow Schwarz in encouraging a values-centered approach that leaves room for the reader to address the ways in which reading a text correlates to the reader's ability to find meaning and value in experience outside the text. Like Schwarz, the essays look for intentionality of authorial meaning (rather than something called an "author function") as well as for the relationship between lived experience and the imagined world of the literary work (rather than the endless semiotic play of an ultimately indecipherable text).

Humanism in literature --- Ethics in literature --- Poetics --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc.

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Les lettrés du début du xvie siècle cherchent à modifier la réalité sociale de leur temps en élaborant dans leurs oeuvres des descriptions de société originales, d'intention pragmatique, pour lesquelles ils s'efforcent d'obtenir l'approbation légitimante des instances de pouvoir. La présente étude se propose de lire dans cette perspective l'Utopie de More, l'Institution du prince chrétien d'Érasme, le De subventione pauperum de Vivès, le De philologia de Budé et le Livre du courtisan de Castiglione.

Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 1500-1599 --- Politics and literature --- Social change in literature --- European literature - Renaissance --- Humanism in literature --- Literature - Europe - History and criticism - 16th century - Social change in literature.

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Das 20. Jahrhundert erlebte eine »Ästhetisierung der Politik« (Benjamin). Humanismus wurde zum politisch beliebigen Slogan, bildete aber gleichzeitig eine gemeinsame Kommunikationsbasis zwischen Künstler und Publikum. Der Band geht der gegenwärtigen interkulturellen Transformation und Verbreitung humanistisch inspirierter Literatur und Theaterkunst am Beispiel der englischen und chinesischen Tradition nach. Damit eröffnet er zugleich einen anschaulichen Blick auf einen wichtigen Aspekt der kulturellen Globalisierung. Es zeigt sich, dass Humanismus in der heutigen Kunst längst kein rigider Rationalismus oder wissenschaftlicher Positivismus mehr ist, mit denen er oft verbunden wurde. Vielmehr beeinflusste er autobiografische Erzählungen und Stücke (Gao Xingjian), favorisierte ganz persönliche Erfahrungen gegenüber einer institutionalisierten und anonymen Geschichte (Mo Yan) und förderte Neuinterpretationen eines westlichen Erzählkanons (Wu Hsing-kuo und sein Stück »Lear«). Besprochen in: Die Deutsche Bühne, 9 (2012) GERMANISTIK, 54/3-4 (2013)

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