The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 April 2015
- ISBN 9780198718314
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages362 pages
- Size 238x156x28 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Blackwood explains how these metres are arranged as aural patterns with a therapeutic and even liturgical purpose.
MoreLong description:
Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history - aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that have a therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how in this acoustic encounter with the text philosophy becomes a lived reality, and reading a kind of prayer.
this is textual scholarship at its best. While it holds clear interest for specialists in early Christianity, it could be instructive for scholars of religious aesthetics more broadly, as well as ethicists who work on questions of moral formation. In learning from Blackwood how to be better readers of Boethius, we can learn how to be better readers simply, attuned to the intricate rhythms and difficulty of any consolation worthy of the name.
Table of Contents:
Notes to Reader
Introduction
Part I: The Metres of Book One
Imprisoned by Rhythm
Rhythmic Intervention
Conclusion to Part I
Part II: Repeated Metres
The First Four
The Final Two
Conclusion to Part II
Part III: Repetition and Recollection: a System of Rhythmic Sound
Formal Structure
Functional Purpose
Analogies
Conclusion to Part III
Part IV: A Meditation on Book Five
Repetition, Narration, and the Meditative Ascent
Freedom, Providence, and Prayer
Conclusion to Part IV
Conclusion
Appendix A, The Poems of Book 1
Appendix B, Figures
List of Figures
Bibliography
