Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (2)

UAntwerpen (2)

UGent (2)

ULiège (2)

VUB (2)

KBR (1)

LUCA School of Arts (1)

Odisee (1)

Thomas More Kempen (1)

Thomas More Mechelen (1)

More...

Resource type

book (2)

digital (2)


Language

English (2)


Year
From To Submit

2010 (1)

2004 (1)

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by

Multi
Augustine's inner dialogue : the philosophical soliloquy in late Antiquity
Author:
ISBN: 9780521190312 0521190312 9780511760877 110846680X 1107213614 0511861907 9786612921698 0511859589 0511860455 051185871X 0511856970 0511760876 128292169X 0511857845 9780511860454 9780511857843 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Augustine's philosophy of life involves mediation, reviewing one's past and exercises for self-improvement. Centuries after Plato and before Freud he invented a 'spiritual exercise' in which every man and woman is able, through memory, to reconstruct and reinterpret life's aims. In this 2010 book, Brian Stock examines Augustine's unique way of blending literary and philosophical themes. He proposes a new interpretation of Augustine's early writings, establishing how the philosophical soliloquy (soliloquium) has emerged as a mode of inquiry and how it relates to problems of self-existence and self-history. The book also provides clear analysis of inner dialogue and discourse and how, as inner dialogue complements and finally replaces outer dialogue, a style of thinking emerges, arising from ancient sources and a religious attitude indebted to Judeo-Christian tradition.

A companion to the works of Alfred Döblin
Author:
ISBN: 9781571131249 1571131248 9781571136169 1571134603 9786611801038 1281801038 1571136169 Year: 2004 Publisher: Rochester (N.Y.) : Camden House,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. Döblin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer . Döblin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. Döblin's impact on German writers after the Second World War was considerable: Günter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the reading public, it has overshadowed the rest of Döblin's immense oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice to such important texts as Döblin's early stories, his numerous other novels, his political, philosophical, medical, autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and his writings on the new media of cinema and radio.Contributors: Heidi Thomann Tewarson, David Dollenmayer, Neil H. Donahue, Roland Dollinger, Veronika Fuechtner, Gabriele Sander, Erich Kleinschmidt, Wulf Koepke, Helmut F. Pfanner, Helmuth Kiesel, Klaus Müller-Salget, Christoph Bartscherer, Wolfgang Düsing.Roland Dollinger is associate professor of German at Sarah Lawrence College; Wulf Koepke is professor emeritus of German at Texas A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is professor of German at Oberlin College.

Listing 1 - 2 of 2
Sort by