| 1 |
Embodied Transcendence in Victorian Novels: A Comparative Study of Select Works by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
|
|
|
|
Abstract:
This thesis is a study of embodied transcendence as a literary principle and its application in Victorian Literature. Through close reading and textual analysis, especially through the lens of cognitive linguistic science, this study offers the following three findings. First, in an age characterized by religious reform and scientific advancement, the narratives in select novels by George Eliot and Thomas Hardy reveal a literary phenomenon where the authors adopt a humanistic, embodied approach to the characters’ transcendence, as an alternative to the metaphysical claim of immaterial, disembodied transcendence. Second, during the philosophical, theological probing of the concept of transcendence that hinges on the related conceptual pairs -- body and spirit, immanence and transcendence -- the study recognizes while the body-spirit relationship has been a persistent problem for western thought, the Victorian novels seem to approach this long-standing, unanswered question in a new way, with an answer that happens to anticipate the contemporary cognitive science. Third, this thesis claims that through the application of the principle of embodied transcendence, the Victorian authors manifest a reformative purposefulness: their narratives transform three interrelated concepts -- transcendence, religion and heroism – which reflects the Victorian consciousness of the primacy of embodiment, humanity, and the heroism of common people with their belief that everyday moral acts would make the community and world a better place.
|
|
Keyword:
embodiment; English literature; heroism; philosophy; religion; self; transcendence
|
|
URL: https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37367696
|
|
BASE
|
|
Hide details
|
|
|
| 4 |
Sydney melancholia prototype index (Smpi): Translation and cross-cultural adaptation to brazilian portuguese
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 8 |
Recent discoveries of Meroitic inscriptions in Nubia: a new hope?
|
|
|
|
In: Scripta ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02540192 ; Scripta, 2018, p. 89-107 (2018)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 9 |
Pre-service teachers' evolving perceptions and responses to teaching: changing career to find meaning and purpose
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 10 |
The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 16 |
A Neolithic expansion, but strong genetic structure, in the independent history of New Guinea
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 17 |
Décrire, imaginer, construire l’espace. Toponymie égyptienne de l’Antiquité au Moyen-Âge
|
|
|
|
In: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-01769431 ; France. 39, pp.272, 2016, Recherches d’archéologie, de philologie et d’histoire (RAPH) (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 18 |
Anthroponymie et histoire sociale à la Troisième Période intermédiaire
|
|
|
|
In: Études d’onomastique égyptienne. Méthodologie et nouvelles approches ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02381201 ; Åke Engsheden; Yannis Gourdon. Études d’onomastique égyptienne. Méthodologie et nouvelles approches, 38, pp.253-270, 2016, RAPH (2016)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 19 |
Malagasy Genetic Ancestry Comes from an Historical Malay Trading Post in Southeast Borneo
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
| 20 |
Contrasting Linguistic and Genetic Origins of the Asian Source Populations of Malagasy
|
|
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
|
|
