Eternity's Ennui

Eternity's Ennui
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Total Pages : 432
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ISBN-10 : 9789004189379
ISBN-13 : 9004189378
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Download or read book Eternity's Ennui written by M.B. Pranger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine articulates temporality as focus rather than duration. It encompasses the shift from the future through the present to the past. Yet this a-causal, free-floating concept of time has never been applied to the shape of Augustine’s own narrative in the Confessions, or to that other vintage Augustinian problem: predestination. This book examines Augustinian temporality by experimentally projecting it onto modern(ist) authors (Kleist, Henry James, Kafka, Beckett) who are less dependent on sequential narrative and more concerned with the fragility and sustainability of voice in time. Processed through this mill of unfamiliar readings, the poignant problem of Augustinian time is how focus can account for digression. How can one deal with an unfathomably brief notion of time while eternity’s longueur hovers over it?


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