Augustine's Confessions : communicative purpose and audience /
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 potent...
المؤلف الرئيسي:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
سلاسل:
Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements
71.
Vigiliae Christianae Supplements Online, ISBN: 9789004308961.
الموضوعات:
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: BR65.A62 K68 2004
| الملخص: | 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. |
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| وصف المادة: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral). |
| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (x, 278 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-270) and indexes. |
| ردمك: | 9789047405696 |
| تدمد: | 0920-623X ; |
| وصول: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |