عنوان

The late medieval origins of the modern novel

شابک

1137522917

شابک

9781137522917

شابک اشتباه

1137541334

شابک اشتباه

9781137541338

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

The late medieval origins of the modern novel

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Rachel A. Kent.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction: The Novel's Liturgical Origins, Pursuit of Presence, and Pained Aesthetics -- 1. The Laity's Triumph: Evolutions of Medieval Christology, Liturgy, and Lay Devotional Practice -- 2. The Wooden Pietá's Use and Inspiration in Late Medieval Beguine Communities -- 3. Housing for "Excess": Protestantism, Textuality, and the Novel's Late Medieval Capacities in a Post-Reformation Cosmos -- 4. Humor and Inconclusiveness: The Modern Novel's Experimental Origins and Hermeneutical Future -- 5. The Scandalous Divinity of "Madame Edwarda" and "My Mother": Georges Bataille's Atheist "theology" of the Incarnation, Community, and Ethics -- 6. Thomas Hardy's Phenomenology and Redemption for Michael Henchard through the Victorian Feminine -- 7. The Short Story as Presence Encounter: Eden, the Aging Body, and the Suckled Breast in Maupassant and Steinbeck's Literary Pietás -- Conclusion: The World Recreated: Lame Margareta of Magdeburg's Experimental Theology and Ethics.

بدون عنوان

8

متن يادداشت

"The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel dramatically refreshes the age-old debate regarding the novel's origins and purpose. Acknowledging the excellence of Doody, Moore, and Pavel's recent work, scholarship has yet to account for literature's final ability, after millennia of engagement with royalty, heroes, epic journeys, morality tales, and political satire, to embrace the sexual, pained byways of the ordinary man and woman in the early modern period. Contrasting theories of the novel as a Protestant inheritance, this book ties the startling ontology and aesthetics of late medieval spirituality to the form's scandalous, experimental early modern emergence. Recalling these origins, Kent reestablishes the novel theoretically as a landscape of vulnerable 'presence encounter', and not primarily as a 'meaning event'. From James to Kundera to Robbe-Grillet, Kent engages literary theorists hinting at this primary 'presence' purpose. She closes by exploring literary 'Pietás' within Hardy, Maupassant, and Bataille. "--

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

MIL

شماره انبار

848958

موضوع مستند نشده

Christianity-- Influence.

موضوع مستند نشده

Civilization, Medieval-- Influence.

موضوع مستند نشده

Fiction-- History and criticism.

موضوع مستند نشده

BIO-- 007000

شماره

ويراست

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Kent, Rachel A.,1983-

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Ohio Library and Information Network.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Springer-Verlag.

تاريخ عمليات

20160219054047.3

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y