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Stock, Brian

 
9780812216127: Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0812216121 ISBN 13 : 9780812216127
Editeur : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997

Synopsis

"Ours is largely an ahistorical world. And yet we take history very seriously. The more remote the past becomes, the more we seem to concern ourselves with understanding it. We are no longer linked to our ancestors through common material conditions. If earlier ages still have a hold on us, it is through our thoughts about them.

"The essays in this volume are about a segment of the past that runs roughly from the end of antiquity to the thirteenth century. More generally, they are about recollecting the past by putting words into writings. They are equally about the past that is written about and the writing that brings it to life. In other words, they deal with the creation of the past as text."--from the Introduction

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À propos de l'auteur

Brian Stock is Professor of History and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto. He is author of The Implications of Literacy: Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries; Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation; and After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Éditeur
University of Pennsylvania Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0812216121
ISBN 13 
9780812216127
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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Personne responsable
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