Kerry J. Schooley wrote:
Approach perhaps, but name the others that deny
transcendence, please.
*********** There is no transcendence in tragedy, none in
Gothic, none in American Naturalism, and near as I can tell,
the most popular school of writing in the last hundred years,
realism.
And since literature examines the range and grasp of human
experience, reason, and belief, all those things that you say
transcendence goes beyond, I'd be hard-pressed to find the
relevance of the actual existence of transcendence in
literature. Even the American transcendentalists used their
philosophy for the purposes of examining the range and grasp
of human experience, so it appears to me that, by the
definition you gave, even they didn't do much
transcending.
It is the quest for transcendence that is significant in
literature, not its existence.
miker
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