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After Augustine : the meditative reader and the text / Brian Stock.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stock, Brian.
- Series:
- Material texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
- Augustine.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Books and reading.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
- Books and reading.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430--Influence.
- Self-knowledge, Theory of--History.
- Self-knowledge, Theory of.
- Books and reading--History.
- History.
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo--Books and reading.
- Local Subjects:
- Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo--Books and reading.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (132 pages).
- Other Title:
- Penn Press e-books.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained the point of reference to which all later writers invariably return in their search for the roots of problems concerning reading and interpretation in the West.".
- "Using Augustine as his touchstone, Brian Stock considers the evolution of the Western reader and of Western reading practices from antiquity to the Renaissance. He looks to the problem of self-knowledge in the reading culture of late antiquity; engages the related question of ethical values and literary experience in the same period; and reconsiders Erich Auerbach's interpretation of ancient literary realism."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- Reading and self-knowledge
- Ethical values and the literary imagination
- Later ancient literary realism
- The problem of self-representation
- Petrarch's portrait of Augustine
- Two versions of Utopia
- Lectio spiritualis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780812203042
- 0812203046
- OCLC:
- 874143712
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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