Eternity's ennui : : temporality, perseverance and voice in Augustine and Western literature / / by M.B. Pranger.
Augustine articulates temporality as focus rather than duration. It encompasses the shift from the future through the present to the past. Yet this a-causal, free-floating concept of time has never been applied to the shape of Augustine’s own narrative in the Confessions , or to that other vintage A...
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history,
v. 190 Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 190. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | Augustine articulates temporality as focus rather than duration. It encompasses the shift from the future through the present to the past. Yet this a-causal, free-floating concept of time has never been applied to the shape of Augustine’s own narrative in the Confessions , or to that other vintage Augustinian problem: predestination. This book examines Augustinian temporality by experimentally projecting it onto modern(ist) authors (Kleist, Henry James, Kafka, Beckett) who are less dependent on sequential narrative and more concerned with the fragility and sustainability of voice in time. Processed through this mill of unfamiliar readings, the poignant problem of Augustinian time is how focus can account for digression. How can one deal with an unfathomably brief notion of time while eternity’s longueur hovers over it? |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-418) and index. |
| ISBN: | 128385211X 9004189378 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by M.B. Pranger. |