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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- Time, focus and narrative in Augustine's Confessions
- The unfathomability of sincerity : on the seriousness of Augustine's Confessions
- The gift of destiny and the language of dispossession
- The sustainability of voice
- Eternity's ennui.