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OverviewDramatically 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel A. KentPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.679kg ISBN: 9781137541338ISBN 10: 1137541334 Pages: 278 Publication Date: 05 October 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of 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"Reviews"""Kent shows a profound sensitivity to the emotional and ethical capacity of art and literature to communicate complex and multi-faceted meanings. Her weaving together of medieval devotional art and modern literature is scintillating in its allusive and suggestive associations, offering a moving and eloquent insight into the difference between the suffering body as the compassionate focus of piety/pity, and the suffering body as the pornographic focus of violence and possession."" - Tina Beattie, Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Roehampton, UK ""Working within a discipline that now searches for multiple lines of filiation, Kent develops a wide-ranging argument in service of a provocative thesis: the novel emerges as a 'site of endurance' for a liturgically-based ontology 'embodied,' quite literally, in late-medieval devotional practices. 'Modernity's' supposed rupture with its 'medieval' past is once again challenged by a writer willing to engage with what has been overlooked, marginalized, concealed - this time in service of a renewed spirituality."" - James M. Kee, Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, USA ""A new, spicy voice in the counter-tradition that runs from Margaret Anne Doody to Thomas Pavel, Kent's work upends scholarly assumptions of the novel's modern origins and secularizing trajectory. Her insistence on the priority of the erotic, impassioned person and visceral personal encounter without which there is no signification or meaning and her lyrical flourishes from theology to cultural theory to the middle ages and back again make this a delicious, electric, and satisfying read."" - Lori Branch, Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa, USA" Kent shows a profound sensitivity to the emotional and ethical capacity of art and literature to communicate complex and multi-faceted meanings. Her weaving together of medieval devotional art and modern literature is scintillating in its allusive and suggestive associations, offering a moving and eloquent insight into the difference between the suffering body as the compassionate focus of piety/pity, and the suffering body as the pornographic focus of violence and possession. - Tina Beattie, Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Roehampton, UK Working within a discipline that now searches for multiple lines of filiation, Kent develops a wide-ranging argument in service of a provocative thesis: the novel emerges as a 'site of endurance' for a liturgically-based ontology 'embodied,' quite literally, in late-medieval devotional practices. 'Modernity's' supposed rupture with its 'medieval' past is once again challenged by a writer willing to engage with what has been overlooked, marginalized, concealed - this time in service of a renewed spirituality. - James M. Kee, Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, USA A new, spicy voice in the counter-tradition that runs from Margaret Anne Doody to Thomas Pavel, Kent's work upends scholarly assumptions of the novel's modern origins and secularizing trajectory. Her insistence on the priority of the erotic, impassioned person and visceral personal encounter - without which there is no signification or meaning - and her lyrical flourishes from theology to cultural theory to the middle ages and back again make this a delicious, electric, and satisfying read. - Lori Branch, Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa, USA Kent shows a profound sensitivity to the emotional and ethical capacity of art and literature to communicate complex and multi-faceted meanings. Her weaving together of medieval devotional art and modern literature is scintillating in its allusive and suggestive associations, offering a moving and eloquent insight into the difference between the suffering body as the compassionate focus of piety/pity, and the suffering body as the pornographic focus of violence and possession. - Tina Beattie, Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Roehampton, UK Working within a discipline that now searches for multiple lines of filiation, Kent develops a wide-ranging argument in service of a provocative thesis: the novel emerges as a 'site of endurance' for a liturgically-based ontology 'embodied,' quite literally, in late-medieval devotional practices. 'Modernity's' supposed rupture with its 'medieval' past is once again challenged by a writer willing to engage with what has been overlooked, marginalized, concealed - this time in service of a renewed spirituality. - James M. Kee, Professor of English, College of the Holy Cross, USA A new, spicy voice in the counter-tradition that runs from Margaret Anne Doody to Thomas Pavel, Kent's work upends scholarly assumptions of the novel's modern origins and secularizing trajectory. Her insistence on the priority of the erotic, impassioned person and visceral personal encounter without which there is no signification or meaning and her lyrical flourishes from theology to cultural theory to the middle ages and back again make this a delicious, electric, and satisfying read. - Lori Branch, Associate Professor of English, The University of Iowa, USA Author InformationRachel Andrea Kent is an Independent Scholar in New Zealand. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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