The Humanistic and Pluralistic Quest
Theory as Biography and Testament
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4805891 |
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| Authors | Daniel R Schwarz (0000-0002-7108-8754, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-86 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-4962 • E-ISSN: 1529-1456 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bio.2010.0228 |
| OpenAlex | W1969786133 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
My essay relates my life to my work as a humanistic critic, and argues that my theoretical and critical perspective is a kind of life-writing. Strands of my life coalesce in my pluralistic perspective and in my choice of subjects for my critical work: Conrad, Joyce, Disraeli, Stevens, Woolf, and Lawrence. I consider in particular how a Jewish perspective informs my work, and examine that perspective in relation to my arguing for a revised humanistic criticism that insists that texts are by human authors for human readers about human subjects, and that is interested in how and why people think, write, act, and ultimately live
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Criticism · Epistemology · Humanism · Literature · Sociology · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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