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"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 an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stock, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2001]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430
Augustin, > saint, evêque d'Hippone > Influence.
Augustin, > saint, evêque d'Hippone > Livres et lecture.
Augustin, > saint, evêque d'Hippone, > 354-430. > Confessiones.
Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo. > Confessiones.
Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo > Books and reading.
Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo > Influence.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430 > Influence.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430 > Books and reading.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430. > Confessiones.
Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
Interpretatie.
Zelfkennis.
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Books and reading.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Livres et lecture > Histoire.
Connaissance de soi > Histoire.
Books and reading > History.
Self-knowledge, Theory of > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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