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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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: Rambling
- Chapter One. Time, Focus and Narrative in Augustine’s Confessions
- Chapter Two. The Unfathomability of Sincerity: on the Seriousness of Augustine’s Confessions
- Chapter Three. The Gift of Destiny and the Language of Dispossession
- Chapter Four. The Sustainability of Voice
- Chapter Five. Eternity’s Ennui
- Bibliography
- Index of Personal Names.