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Comparative Literature

Brigham Young University

Augustine

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The Rest After The Desert: Ending Confessions, George S. Tate Jan 1995

The Rest After The Desert: Ending Confessions, George S. Tate

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Augustine, it seems, ends the Confessions twice: the first time neatly at the conclusion of Book 9; the second, problematically, at the end of Book 13. The first ending is an autobiographical ending, but what of the second? The structural and generic unity of the Confessions is a vexed issue, even though its coherence of theme is increasingly recognized. If the work is unified, is it unified as autobiography? If (as I argue) Augustine had come to find the conversion paradigm of his first ending to be unsatisfactory and had exploded it by adopting a new and dangerous strategy in …


Review Essay: Charles Dahlberg, The Literature Of Unlikeness, Brenda M. Hosington Jan 1990

Review Essay: Charles Dahlberg, The Literature Of Unlikeness, Brenda M. Hosington

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Charles Dahlberg, The Literature of Unlikeness, University Press of New England, 1988.