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Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature

by M. B. Pranger

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  • 436 pages
  • Publisher: Brill

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For students of Augustine and literary theory.

Shows how Augustine’s concept of time works today.

Helps you grasp complex ideas of faith and memory.

This insightful volume explores how Augustine’s unique view of time shapes narrative, perseverance, and identity.

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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?
Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature and The Artificiality of Christianity
The Artificiality of ChristianityEternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature

  • Title

    Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature

  • Author

    M. B. Pranger

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    October 2010

  • Weight

    831g

  • Page Count

    436

  • ISBN

    9789004189362

  • ISBN-10

    900418936X

  • Eden Code

    4708769