Eternity's ennui : temporality, perseverance and voice in Augustine and Western literature / by M.B. Pranger.
This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine's confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time's focus with eternity's longueur and the rhetoric of digression?
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Full Text (via ProQuest) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 190. |
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| Summary: | This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine's confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time's focus with eternity's longueur and the rhetoric of digression? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 420 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-418) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004189379 9004189378 |
| ISSN: | 0920-8607 ; |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |