Language in the Confessions of Augustine
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 August 2007
- ISBN 9780199266227
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages212 pages
- Size 220x140x20 mm
- Weight 397 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An exploration of Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. Philip Burton traces the role of language in Augustine's career, up to his reinvention of himself as a Christian intellectual, commentating on Scripture and preaching to his flock.
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Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. One of Augustine's key concerns is the story of his own encounters with language: from his acquisition of language as a child, through his career as schoolboy orator then star student at Carthage, to professor of rhetoric at Carthage and Rome. Having worked his way up to the eminence of Court Orator to the Roman Emperor at Milan, Augustine rediscovered the catholic Christianity of his childhood - and decided that this was incompatible with his rhetorical profession. Over the next ten years, he gradually reinvents himself as a different sort of language professional: a Christian intellectual, commentating on Scripture and preaching to his flock.
The relative value of the work lies in the detailed information about a specific number of issues, especially statistics on word usage and comparisons with classical works... also demonstrates the rich and nuanced nature of Augustine's prose and how carefully it has to be read in order to discover all the meanings embedded in the text... Any detailed interpretation of passages that contain some of the words and concepts examined by Burton may benefit by taking into account the insights from his book.
Table of Contents:
Sermo
Alternative Comedy: The Language of the Theatre
The Vocabulary of the Liberal Arts
Talking Books
Biblical Idioms in the Confessions
The Paralinguistics
Epilogue
