After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text

Brian Stock

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2001

After Augustine

The Meditative Reader and the Text

Brian Stock

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https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812203042

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The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. "A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."—Choice

Author information

Brian Stock is Professor of History and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. He is author of The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation; and Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Reviews

"The essays in this volume discuss the changing purpose of reading from late antiquity to the Renaissance. A most unusual, fascinating, and rich book, very well written, with copious scholarly notes."—Choice

"This recent volume by Professor Brian Stock exhibits enormous learning in its efforts to uncover the patterns of relations between reading, writing, and the search for self-understanding during the Middle Ages."—Catholic Historical Review

"This book is an instructive and comprehensive work about Augustine's influence on history as well as on the nature of reading and the discovery of the Self through literary texts."—L&C/Book Reviews

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Reading And Self-Knowledge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
Chapter 2. Ethical Values And The Literary Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
Chapter 3. Later Ancient Literary Realism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
Chapter 4. The Problem Of Self-Representation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter 5. Petrarch's Portrait Of Augustine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 6. Two Versions Of Utopia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Chapter 7. Lectio Spiritualis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
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Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 144
Keywords: Cultural Studies; Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies; Literature; Cultural Studies; Ancient Studies

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Published: November 20, 2013
ISBN: 9780812203042