Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions - Couverture souple

White, James Boyd

 
9780231205016: Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0231205015 ISBN 13 : 9780231205016
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2022

Synopsis

St. Augustine's Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see the originality and depth of Augustine's work.

In Let in the Light, White invites readers to join him in a close and engaged encounter with the Confessions in which they will come to share his experience of the book's power and profundity by reading at least some of it in Augustine's own language. He offers an accessible guide to reading the text in Latin, line by line--even for those who have never studied the language.

Equally attuned to the resonances of individual words and the deeper currents of Augustine's culture, Let in the Light considers how the form and nuances of the Latin text allow greater insight into the work and its author. White shows how to read Augustine's prose with care and imagination, rewarding sustained attention and broader reflection.

Let in the Light brings new life to a classic work, guiding readers to experience the immediacy, urgency, and vitality of Augustine's Confessions.

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À propos de l?auteur

James Boyd White is the L. Hart Wright Professor of Law Emeritus and professor of English emeritus at the University of Michigan and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His many books include The Legal Imagination: Studies in the Nature of Legal Thought and Expression (1973) and, most recently, Keep Law Alive (2019). He is considered the founder of the law and literature movement.

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Éditeur
Columbia University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0231205015
ISBN 13 
9780231205016
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
384
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9780231205009: Let in the Light: Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions

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ISBN 10 :  0231205007 ISBN 13 :  9780231205009
Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2022
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