Let in the Light : : Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions / / James Boyd White.
St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see...
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White, James Boyd, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Let in the Light : Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions / James Boyd White. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- 1. The Shape of the Confessions -- 2. The First Three Sentences (Book 1) -- 3. Movement from One Mode of Thought and Expression to Another (Book 1) -- 4. Remembering Early Childhood and Language Breaking Down (Book 1) -- Part II -- 5. Adolescence, Sex, and the Stolen Pears (Book 2) -- 6. Love, Philosophy, and Monnica’s Dream (Book 3) -- 7. Friendship and Struggles with Manicheism (Book 4) -- 8. From the Manichees to Ambrose (Book 5) -- 9. Certainty and Uncertainty (Book 6) -- 10. Imagining God and the Origin of Evil (Book 7) -- 11. The Conversion in the Garden (Book 8) -- 12. What It Meant (Book 9) -- Part III -- 13. Memory, Sin, and Redemption (Book 10) -- 14. Time (Book 11) -- 15. Reading Genesis: The Creation Story (Book 12) -- 16. “Knock and It Shall Be Opened unto You” (Book 13) -- Coda -- Notes restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine’s work.In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in which they will come to share his experience of the book’s power and profundity by reading at least some of it in Augustine’s own language. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin, line by line—even for those who have never studied the language.Equally attuned to the resonances of individual words and the deeper currents of Augustine’s culture, Let in the Light considers how the form and nuances of the Latin text allow greater insight into the work and its author. White shows how to read Augustine’s prose with care and imagination, rewarding sustained attention and broader reflection.Let in the Light brings new life to a classic work, guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine’s Confessions. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110749663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2022 English 9783110994544 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Theol., Relig.Stud., Jewish Stud. 2022 9783110994537 ZDB-23-DGF https://doi.org/10.7312/whit20500 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231555791 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231555791/original |
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