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This book is a philosophical examination of the main stages in our
journey from hominid to human. It deals with the nature and origin
of language, the self, self-consciousness, and the religious ideal
of a return to Eden. It approaches these topics through a
philosophical anthropology derived from the later writings of
Wittgenstein. The result is an account of our place in nature
consistent with both a hard-headed empiricism and a this-worldy but
religiously significant mysticism.
For centuries, the transmission of power in feudal European society
depended on a code of fidelity, of political allegiance, and truth
to one's word. The word as bond extended to include not only the
pledge of allegiance between subject and king, but the troth-plight
between lovers, the vow of friendship, and the judicial oath.
Society was ultimately based upon a gentleman's or gentlewoman's
word that was itself underwritten by the Word of God.J. Douglas
Canfield argues that English literature of the feudal epoch placed
this master trope of word as bond at the center of conflict. The
trope does not passively reflect social reality; rather, it helps
to define, to constitute the society and its values. Both society
and literature were preoccupied by the contest between fidelity on
the one hand and its antithesis, betrayal (with the political and
sexual anarchy that it threatened) on the other. In literature, the
conflict was usually resolved through supernatural aid, the
intervention of the Logos, which guaranteed the validity of the
word.Canfield analyzes over 25 representative works, focusing on
Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Dryden, in the five dominant modes of
aristocratic literature-romance, comedy, lyric, tragedy, and
satire. In each chapter, he offers three examples, one from the
Middle Ages, one from the Renaissance, and one from the
Restoration.Canfield's study proceeds synchronically, attempting to
show that the trope is always under stress. The language of heroic
romance coexists with the language of subversive comedy and
absurdist satire. In an Afterword, he suggests why the trope
disappears--not from the discourse, where it remains to this day,
but from the center of conflict in English literature after 1688.
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Lisa Canfield; Illustrated by A J Canfield; Narrated by George Kuch
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Joel Canfield; Edited by Lisa Canfield; Cover design or artwork by A J Canfield
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Robert D. Calkins; Edited by Lisa Canfield; Cover design or artwork by A J Canfield
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