Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004189362)

Vendor: M. B. Pranger
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Format: Hardcover
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Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature

$198.00

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

$198.00
Format: Hardcover
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Augustine articulates temporality as focus rather than duration. It encompasses the shift from the future through the present to the past. Yet this a-causal, free-floating concept of time has never been applied to the shape of Augustine's own narrative in the Confessions, or to that other vintage Augustinian problem: predestination. This book examines Augustinian temporality by experimentally projecting it onto modern(ist) authors (Kleist, Henry James, Kafka, Beckett) who are less dependent on sequential narrative and more concerned with the fragility and sustainability of voice in time. Processed through this mill of unfamiliar readings, the poignant problem of Augustinian time is how focus can account for digression. How can one deal with an unfathomably brief notion of time while eternity's longueur hovers over it?

Author: M. B. Pranger
ISBN-10: 900418936X
ISBN-13: 9789004189362
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2010
Pages: 424
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 9.45h x 6.30w x 0.94d
By M. B. Pranger
By M. B. Pranger
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M.B. Pranger, Ph.D. (1975), University of Amsterdam, is Professor emeritus at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the literary aspects of monasticism (Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought (Brill, 1994), The Artificiality of Christianity (Stanford, 2003).

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