Consolation in medieval narrative: Augustinian authority and open form
"This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simp...
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| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY
Palgrave Macmillan
2015
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| In: | Anno: 2015 |
| Edizione: | 1. edition |
| Periodico/Rivista: | The new Middle Ages
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| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Santo 354-430
/ Ricezione
/ Consolazione <motivo> (Motivo)
/ Letteratura
/ Tecnica narrativa
/ Storia 500-1500
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| Altre parole chiave: | B
Confession in literature
B Augustine Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (-604?) Influence B Literature, Medieval History and criticism B Narration (Rhetoric) B Christianity and literature B Consolation in literature |
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Autorenbiografie (Publisher) Table of Contents (Publisher) Blurb (Publisher) Verlagsangaben (Publisher) |
| Riepilogo: | "This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simple and flexible shape - prospect, fulfillment, interpretive retrospect - derives from Augustine's Christian exegetical practice. Because its meaning resides in retrospective and open interpretation of a climactic center, the form emerges as a consolatory narrative alternative to the closures of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in key medieval texts manifesting personal, political, and ecclesiastical crisis: Peter Abelard's History of My Calamities, William Langland's Piers Plowman, the anonymous Stanzaic Morte, Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. "-- "This book explores how medieval writers provided consolation for personal stories that did not end well by telling those stories in terms of sacred history, which for them had not ended well yet. They knew how to do this because Augustine, in Confessions and City of God, did it first"-- "This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simple and flexible shape - prospect, fulfillment, interpretive retrospect - derives from Augustine's Christian exegetical practice. Because its meaning resides in retrospective and open interpretation of a climactic center, the form emerges as a consolatory narrative alternative to the closures of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in key medieval texts manifesting personal, political, and ecclesiastical crisis: Peter Abelard's History of My Calamities, William Langland's Piers Plowman, the anonymous Stanzaic Morte, Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. "-- "This book explores how medieval writers provided consolation for personal stories that did not end well by telling those stories in terms of sacred history, which for them had not ended well yet. They knew how to do this because Augustine, in Confessions and City of God, did it first"-- |
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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index |
| Descrizione fisica: | xvi, 240 Seiten, 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1137453354 |