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, i.e. a protreptic purpose, and the degree to which the target audience may be identified as Augustine's pot...
| Основен автор: | Kotze, Annemare. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Серия: |
Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ;
v. 71. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=167224 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Augustine's Confessions. |
| Резюме: |
"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, i.e. 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."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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| Описание на библ. документ: |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral). |
| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 278 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-270) and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
1429408421 9781429408424 9789004139268 9004139265 |
| ISSN: |
0920-623X ; |