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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Main Author: Kent, Rachel A., 1983- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
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.