Augustine's Confessions : communicative purpose and audience /

Augustine's Confessions : communicative purpose and audience / / by Annemaré Kotzé.

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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
:
Kotzé, Annemaré.
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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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE CONFESSIONS AND ITS ACADEMIC READERS: A SURVEY OF SECONDARY LITERATURE
  • THE CONFESSIONS AND ITS FIRST READERS: GENRE AND AUDIENCE
  • COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE IN THE MEDITATION ON PSALM 4
  • PROTREPTIC PURPOSE
  • AUDIENCE
  • CONCLUSION
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS
  • INDEX OF SUBJECTS
  • INDEX LOCORUM
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE.

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