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Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature

By M.B. Pranger

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2010
ISBN
9004189378, 9789004189379
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2185494 bytes)
Series
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 190
Pages
436\433
Time added
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Description

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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