The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Novel

Kent, Rachel A.

Palgrave Macmillan（2015/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 278 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137541338
• DDC分類 809.3

Full Description

Dramatically refreshing the age-old debate about the novel's origins and purpose, Kent traces the origin of the modern novel to a late medieval fascination with the wounded, and often eroticized, body of Christ. A wide range of texts help to illustrate this discovery, ranging from medieval 'Pietàs' to Thomas Hardy to contemporary literary theory.

Contents

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 Pieta'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 Pietas Conclusion: The World Recreated: Lame Margareta of Magdeburg's Experimental Theology and Ethics