{"product_id":"eternitys-ennui-m-b-pranger-9789004189362","title":"Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e, 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e M. B. Pranger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 900418936X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004189362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.45h x 6.30w x 0.94d","brand":"M. B. Pranger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48799128322303,"sku":"9789004189362","price":198.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eternitys-ennui-m-b-pranger-9789004189362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}