| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 420 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Brill's studies in intellectual history,
0920-8607 ;
v. 190
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Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 190.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-418) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
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Augustine, Saint. |
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Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint) |
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Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Time in literature.
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Time in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pranger, M.B. Eternity's ennui. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004189362 (DLC) 2010031514 (OCoLC)642299799 |
| ISBN |
9789004189379 (electronic book) |
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9004189378 (electronic book) |
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9789004189362 |
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900418936X |
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