The author considers the origins of the contestation of the “old” man that gained ground in Europe and the United States in the second half of the twentieth century. Showing the stages of the transformations that took place ...

The notion of the New Man, in its various iterations, has functioned in European culture from its earliest history to the twenty-first century. This publication, through the juxtaposition and comparison of modern critical ...

Although by the second half of the twentieth century organ transplantation had become a standard medical procedure, in late-twentieth- and early twenty-first century films and literature it is still closely aligned with ...

T. S. Eliot’s reference to the “inner voice” in The Function of Criticism is the starting point for this essay. For Eliot, the inner voice, or individual set of beliefs, amounts to a contradiction between the writer’s ...

This text presents the vision of the new man in the first novel written by the Spanish writer Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936), but not published until 1994. Contrary to the dominant critical approaches that mine Unamuno’s ...

From the first decades of the twentieth century, the biblical myth of the new man and the new world has been at times the “vehicle,” at times the “stowaway,” of political ideology: the dream of communist society reactivates ...

As a Russian exile, Nabokov was wholly opposed to the Soviet ideology of the “new man.” The theme of memory, essential to his Russian and American novels, may be interpreted as his personal answer and poetical antidote to ...

The author interrogates the relationship between the author and the reader within the context of the process of creating the modernist vision of the New Man. What is the degree of activity on both sides of the equation in ...

Based on an analysis of short fragments of selected texts by Gloria Anzaldúa, José Antonio Burciaga, and Pat Mora, the author focuses on how Chicanos view and describe their identity in literary works. The text touches on ...

The author examines anthropological issues in Miron Białoszewski’s Wiwisekcja. Her reflections on the play’s vision of the new man are grounded in the theoretical issues introduced into humanistic discourse by Ernst Cassirer ...