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19 - Reading (in) Augustine’s Confessions

from Part III - Reception and Reading Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Mark Vessey
Edited by
Tarmo Toom
Tarmo Toom
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter presents reading scenes in the “Confessions” as models for an individual’s reading as a social or intersubjective act, and places Augustine’s work in the cognitive ecology of the late Roman Empire.

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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 317 - 334
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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