The late medieval origins of the modern novel /
"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 millenni...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
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- 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.