Augustine's Confessions [[electronic resource] ] : communicative purpose and audience / / by Annemaré Kotzé

• Autore: Kotzé Annemaré
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 270.2/092
• Soggetto topico: Didactic literature, Latin - History and criticism; Manichaeism - Controversial literature - History and criticism; Apologetics - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONFESSIONS AND ITS ACADEMIC READERS: A SURVEY OF SECONDARY LITERATURE -- THE CONFESSIONS AND ITS FIRST READERS: GENRE AND AUDIENCE -- COMMUNICATIVE PURPOSE AND AUDIENCE IN THE MEDITATION ON PSALM 4 -- PROTREPTIC PURPOSE -- AUDIENCE -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS -- INDEX OF SUBJECTS -- INDEX LOCORUM -- SUPPLEMENTS TO VIGILIAE CHRISTIANAE.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, id est 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Augustine's Confessions
• ISBN: 1-280-91536-6; 9786610915361; 90-474-0569-2; 1-4294-0842-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450897503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; ; v. 71.