Aspects of Subjectivity: Society and Individuality from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare and MiltonThis book focuses on representative literary works that illustrate turns in the history of individuality and subjectivity and the changes in one's relations with community and society. In conjunction with The Wanderer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Everyman, The Faerie Queene, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost, Low considers pertinent historical beliefs, attitudes, and practices, including the experience of loneliness and exile, the development of sacramental confession from communal reconciliation to personal absolution from sin, the abolition of Purgatory and the traditional Christian solidarity with the ancestral dead, the role of conscience in the development of self, and the rise in Shakespeare and Milton of a typically modern sense of autonomous individuality and subjectivity. |
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Page 99
... postmodernism ( and as emphasis has shifted further from the warfare between gen- erations to that between genders ) ... postmodernist projects ( all of which may be included under the umbrella term of mod- ernism ) require an attack on ...
... postmodernism ( and as emphasis has shifted further from the warfare between gen- erations to that between genders ) ... postmodernist projects ( all of which may be included under the umbrella term of mod- ernism ) require an attack on ...
Page 194
... Postmodernist Implosion of the Self Thus , since we have broken with the past , it has become something of a ... postmodernism . High modernists in the Whig tradition could argue that self - consciousness , individualism , and freedom ...
... Postmodernist Implosion of the Self Thus , since we have broken with the past , it has become something of a ... postmodernism . High modernists in the Whig tradition could argue that self - consciousness , individualism , and freedom ...
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... postmodernist , for whom living the un- examined life entails supine acquiescence to mystification . and hegemony ... postmodern reader some- what uncomfortable . When dealing with matters of traditional good and evil , heroism and ...
... postmodernist , for whom living the un- examined life entails supine acquiescence to mystification . and hegemony ... postmodern reader some- what uncomfortable . When dealing with matters of traditional good and evil , heroism and ...
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