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  1. Consolation in medieval narrative
    Augustinian authority and open form
    Autor*in: Schrock, Chad D.
    Erschienen: [2015]
    Verlag:  Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY

    "This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and... mehr

    Standort:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    1 A 945955
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    Standort:
    Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
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    66.1507
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    "This book is the first scholarship to map in detail the shape, origins, and rhetorical function of a narrative form authors in the medieval period learned from Augustine's two great histories: the personal Confessions and the political and ecclesiastical City of God. The form's simple and flexible shape - prospect, fulfillment, interpretive retrospect - derives from Augustine's Christian exegetical practice. Because its meaning resides in retrospective and open interpretation of a climactic center, the form emerges as a consolatory narrative alternative to the closures of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy in key medieval texts manifesting personal, political, and ecclesiastical crisis: Peter Abelard's History of My Calamities, William Langland's Piers Plowman, the anonymous Stanzaic Morte, Geoffrey Chaucer's Knight's Tale, and Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. "-- "This book explores how medieval writers provided consolation for personal stories that did not end well by telling those stories in terms of sacred history, which for them had not ended well yet. They knew how to do this because Augustine, in Confessions and City of God, did it first"--

     
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    Quelle: Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781137453358
    RVK Klassifikation: FX 341605
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1. edition
    Schriftenreihe: The new Middle Ages
    Schlagworte: Christianity and literature; Narration (Rhetoric); Consolation in literature; Confession in literature; Literature, Medieval
    Weitere Schlagworte: Augustine Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (-604?)
    Umfang: xvi, 240 S., 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-234) and index

    Machine generated contents note:Introduction1. For the Time Being: Interpretive Consolation in Augustinian Time2. 'Quanto minorem consideras': Abelard's Proportional Consolation3. Three Figures of the Church: Piers Plowman and the Quest for Consolation4. Augustine and Arthur: The Stanzaic Morte and the Comforts of Elegy5. Chaucer's Knight's Tale: Consolations at War6. The Tower and the Turks: More's Meditative ConsolationConclusion.