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Augustine's Confessions: Communicative Purpose and Audience

by Annemare Kotze

  • Hardback
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 16.3 x 24.6 x 2.4 cm

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This book is about the communicative purpose and the audience of the Confessions. It illuminates the degree to which the communicative purpose of the work is to convert its readers, i.e. a protreptic purpose, and the degree to which the target audience may be identified as Augustine's potential Manichaean readers. A brief survey of possible literary antecedents points to the existence of other works that consist of the same combination of an autobiographical section (a conversion story) with a polemical and exegetical section (an argument that aims to convince the reader of the merits of a specific point of view) that characterizes the Confessions. The book provides a new perspective on the meaning and structure of Augustine's often misunderstood masterpiece.
  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    June 2004

  • Weight

    663g

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 24.6 x 2.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004139268

  • ISBN-10

    9004139265

  • Eden Code

    4708627

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