Jerome of Stridon and the ethics of literary production in late Antiquity
"This book becomes legible when light plays across a material substance, be it screen or page. Without the light and without the material, there is no book. To read the book, however, you must perceive meaning in the words before you and in the way that they sit relative to other words, words t...
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2020]
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In: |
Critical approaches to early Christianity (volume 2)
Year: 2020 |
Series/Journal: | Critical approaches to early Christianity
volume 2 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius 345-420
/ Language theory
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IxTheo Classification: | KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KAD Church history 500-900; early Middle Ages |
Further subjects: | B
Books and reading
Religious aspects
Christianity
B Jerome Saint (-419 or 420) Authorship B Christian literature, Early History and criticism Theory, etc B Thesis |
Summary: | "This book becomes legible when light plays across a material substance, be it screen or page. Without the light and without the material, there is no book. To read the book, however, you must perceive meaning in the words before you and in the way that they sit relative to other words, words that are on this page or words that you know and have learned from elsewhere. Without this apprehension - which literary theorists call 'textuality' - there is no book. This book before you is about the interplay between the material and the textual.2 Without the two, it would not exist"-- |
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Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 257-289 |
ISBN: | 900441746X |