03247nam 2200649Ia 450 991046154270332120200520144314.01-283-85211-X90-04-18937-810.1163/9789004189379(CKB)2670000000173822(EBL)1079766(OCoLC)820009847(SSID)ssj0000652871(PQKBManifestationID)11389097(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652871(PQKBWorkID)10643186(PQKB)11220700(MiAaPQ)EBC1079766(OCoLC)642299799(nllekb)BRILL9789004189379(PPN)170741850(Au-PeEL)EBL1079766(CaPaEBR)ebr10631743(CaONFJC)MIL416461(EXLCZ)99267000000017382220100726d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEternity's ennui[electronic resource] temporality, perseverance and voice in Augustine and Western literature /by M.B. PrangerLeiden ;Boston Brill20101 online resource (432 p.)Brill's studies in intellectual history,0920-8607 ;v. 190Description based upon print version of record.90-04-18936-X Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-418) and index.Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Rambling -- Chapter One. Time, Focus and Narrative in Augustine’s Confessions -- Chapter Two. The Unfathomability of Sincerity: on the Seriousness of Augustine’s Confessions -- Chapter Three. The Gift of Destiny and the Language of Dispossession -- Chapter Four. The Sustainability of Voice -- Chapter Five. Eternity’s Ennui -- Bibliography -- Index of Personal Names.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?Brill's Studies in Intellectual History190.TimeReligious aspectsChristianityTime in literatureElectronic books.TimeReligious aspectsChristianity.Time in literature.248.32270.2092Pranger M. B936077MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461542703321Eternity's ennui2108758UNINA