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- catalog abstract ""Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained the point of reference to which all later writers invariably return in their search for the roots of problems concerning reading and interpretation in the West." "Using Augustine as his touchstone, Brian Stock considers the evolution of the Western reader and of Western reading practices from antiquity to the Renaissance. He looks to the problem of self-knowledge in the reading culture of late antiquity; engages the related question of ethical values and literary experience in the same period; and reconsiders Erich Auerbach's interpretation of ancient literary realism."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12031081.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical of any attempt to bring his statements on reading into a formal theory. Yet Augustine has remained the point of reference to which all later writers invariably return in their search for the roots of problems concerning reading and interpretation in the West."".
- catalog description ""Using Augustine as his touchstone, Brian Stock considers the evolution of the Western reader and of Western reading practices from antiquity to the Renaissance. He looks to the problem of self-knowledge in the reading culture of late antiquity; engages the related question of ethical values and literary experience in the same period; and reconsiders Erich Auerbach's interpretation of ancient literary realism."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-127) and index.".
- catalog description "Reading and self-knowledge -- Ethical values and the literary imagination -- Later ancient literary realism -- The problem of self-representation -- Petrarch's portrait of Augustine -- Two versions of Utopia -- Lectio spiritualis.".
- catalog extent "132 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0812236025 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Material texts".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
- catalog subject "418/.4/01 21".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Influence.".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones.".
- catalog subject "BR65.A62 S745 2001".
- catalog subject "Books and reading History.".
- catalog subject "Self-knowledge, Theory of History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Reading and self-knowledge -- Ethical values and the literary imagination -- Later ancient literary realism -- The problem of self-representation -- Petrarch's portrait of Augustine -- Two versions of Utopia -- Lectio spiritualis.".
- catalog title "After Augustine : the meditative reader and the text / Brian Stock.".
- catalog type "text".