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245 14 a| The late medieval origins of the modern novelh| [electronic resource] /c| Rachel A. Kent.;

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505 8 a| 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.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "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. "--c| Provided by publisher.;

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The late medieval origins of the modern novel / Rachel A. Kent.

Author/creator	Kent, Rachel A., 1983-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Description	pages cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Fiction--History and criticism. Civilization, Medieval--Influence. Christianity--Influence.

Contents	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.
Abstract	"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. "-- Provided by publisher.
Abstract	"This work suggests the European novel as the gift of late medieval Christianity's erotic, pained aesthetics and participatory devotional practices. Recalling these origins mark the novel as a site of "presence encounter" and not "meaning event," and the work explores the challenging implications for literary theory and criticism"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015013968
ISBN	9781137541338 (hardback)

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