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A Commentary on Augustine's De cura pro mortuis gerenda: Rhetoric in Practice: 20 Bilingual Edition
Author(s): Paula Rose (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 17 May 2013
- Edition: Bilingual
- Language: English
- Print length: 644 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004228225
- ISBN-13: 9789004228221
Book Description
In De cura pro mortuis gerenda Augustine interweaves an assessment of burial near the memorial of a martyr with a series of dream narratives. The seeming lack of coherence between argument and narrative in this treatise has puzzled many scholars. Combining an analysis of the overall structure of the argument and a detailed philological commentary, this study shows that Augustine’s text forms a well-composed unity. The study is based on discourse-linguistic and narratological concepts as well as an analysis of the global structure of the narratives. Relying on this combined approach Rose demonstrates how Augustine explores the full breadth of his narrative material in the service of his argument. In addition, this book situates Augustine’s text in its cultural-historical context.
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About the Author
Paula J. Rose wrote her dissertation on Augustine’s De cura pro mortuis gerenda at the VU University of Amsterdam. She is a teacher of Classics at Sint Bonifatius College in Utrecht.
