After Augustine : the meditative reader and the text / Brian Stock.

Main entry:

Stock, Brian, author.

Title & Author:

After Augustine : the meditative reader and the text / Brian Stock.

Publication:

Description:

132 pages ; 23 cm.

Series:

Material texts

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reading and self-knowledge -- Ethical values and the literary imagination -- Later ancient literary realism -- The problem of self-representation -- Petrarch's portrait of Augustine -- Two versions of Utopia -- Lectio spiritualis.

Summary:

"Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained the point of reference to which all later writers invariably return in their search for the roots of problems concerning reading and interpretation in the West."
"Using Augustine as his touchstone, Brian Stock considers the evolution of the Western reader and of Western reading practices from antiquity to the Renaissance. He looks to the problem of self-knowledge in the reading culture of late antiquity; engages the related question of ethical values and literary experience in the same period; and reconsiders Erich Auerbach's interpretation of ancient literary realism."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0812236025 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780812236026 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 Books and reading.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 Influence.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Books and reading.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Influence.
Augustin, saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
Augustin, saint, évêque d'Hippone Livres et lecture.
Augustin, saint, évêque d'Hippone Influence.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430 Theology.
Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
Self-knowledge, Theory of History.
Books and reading History.
Connaissance de soi Histoire.
Livres et lecture Histoire.
Books and reading.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
Zelfkennis.
Interpretatie.
Fathers of the church, Latin.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Material texts.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216897
Call No.: BR65.A62 S7 2001
Status: Available

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