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Augustine's Confessions : communicative purpose and audience / by Annemare Kotze.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive 2000-2006 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kotzé, Annemaré.
- Series:
- Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 71.
- Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, 0920-623X ; v. 71
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Didactic literature, Latin--History and criticism.
- Didactic literature, Latin.
- Manichaeism--Controversial literature--History and criticism.
- Manichaeism.
- Apologetics--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Apologetics.
- Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
- Augustine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-91536-6
- 9786610915361
- 90-474-0569-2
- 1-4294-0842-1
- OCLC:
- 191953140
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047405696 DOI
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