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The modernist origins of a crisis in humanism (Walter Pater, Marguerite Yourcenar, France, Andre Gide, England)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The modernist origins of a crisis in humanism (Walter Pater, Marguerite Yourcenar, France, Andre Gide, England)
Author:	Garcia, Antonio A.
Description:	185 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Maria DiBattista.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0503.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Literature, Comparative.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3123426
ISBN:	049670737X

The modernist origins of a crisis in humanism (Walter Pater, Marguerite Yourcenar, France, Andre Gide, England)
Garcia, Antonio A.

The modernist origins of a crisis in humanism (Walter Pater, Marguerite Yourcenar, France, Andre Gide, England) [electronic resource] - 185 p.

Adviser: Maria DiBattista.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2004.

The effects of this crisis become legible in issues central to these works, made urgent by upheavals in the twentieth century: questions of upholding freedom of inquiry, the status of the human in a technological world, and the nature of justice. A close reading of these modernist authors recovers an important, but often neglected moment in the history of ideas about the self, while helping to dispel the notion that humanism was and is univocal in its ideological and ethical commitments.

ISBN: 049670737XSubjects--Topical Terms:

178247
Literature, Comparative.

The modernist origins of a crisis in humanism (Walter Pater, Marguerite Yourcenar, France, Andre Gide, England)
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520 # $a This dissertation explores the effects of a crisis in humanism in the writings of three major modernist writers---Walter Pater, Marguerite Yourcenar and Andre Gide. Through readings of their aesthetic essays, journal entries, and narrative investigations, I argue that the concerns of these exemplary modernist texts are the source of a trend in literature to renew the category of the human as it displays itself in its various aesthetic, epistemological, and historiographical domains. Countering poststructuralism's challenge to a humanist identity, I argue that these writers are representative of modernist preoccupation with the character of the self. All three explore how projects of the individual self might be the subject of knowledge without subjecting the human to an object of control. At a time when intellectuals were deluded by ideology into closing their eyes to persecution, all three assert the capabilities of man as molder of himself. I examine their solutions to the crises of modernism through a number of emblematic encounters: Pater's struggle between the belief in a stable universe versus a sensibility that understands flux as the usual state of consciousness; Yourcenar's fears that the proliferation of nationalist identities in Europe threaten the humanist foundations of culture; Gide's aestheticism, in which he confronts the problems of narcissism and alterity. Memories and dreams are the two most potent methods by which the mind investigates itself, In Pater, both help create a fusion between sense and intellect. Yourcenar, explores their role in shaping the self through her investigation of the competing Occult Enlightenment. Gide explores how dreams and memories minister to narcissism and abet the pursuit of an aesthetic life.
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