Augustine's Confessions : : communicative purpose and audience / / by Annemare Kotze.
This book is about the communicative purpose and the audience of the Confessions . It illuminates the degree to which the communicative purpose of the work is to convert its readers, id est a protreptic purpose, and the degree to which the target audience may be identified as Augustine's potent...
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| Superior document: | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, v. 71 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ;
v. 71. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral). |
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| Summary: | This book is about the communicative purpose and the audience of the Confessions . It illuminates the degree to which the communicative purpose of the work is to convert its readers, id est a protreptic purpose, and the degree to which the target audience may be identified as Augustine's potential Manichaean readers. A brief survey of possible literary antecedents points to the existence of other works that consist of the same combination of an autobiographical section (a conversion story) with a polemical and exegetical section (an argument that aims to convince the reader of the merits of a specific point of view) that characterizes the Confessions . The book provides a new perspective on the meaning and structure of Augustine's often misunderstood masterpiece. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 1280915366 9786610915361 9047405692 1429408421 |
| ISSN: | 0920-623X ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Annemare Kotze. |