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Language in the Confessions of Augustine [electronic resource] / Philip Burton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 198 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780191532825 (electronic bk.)
  • 0191532827 (electronic bk.)
  • 9780199266227 (alk. paper)
  • 0199266220 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language in the Confessions of Augustine.DDC classification:
  • 270.2092 B 22
LOC classification:
  • BR65.A62 B87 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Sermo -- Alternative comedy : the language of the theatre -- The vocabulary of the liberal arts -- Talking books -- Biblical idioms in the Confessions -- The paralinguistic.
Summary: Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his 'Confessions' - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and indexes.

Sermo -- Alternative comedy : the language of the theatre -- The vocabulary of the liberal arts -- Talking books -- Biblical idioms in the Confessions -- The paralinguistic.

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Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his 'Confessions' - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance.

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