The Consolation of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy
Throughout Antiquity and the Middle Ages, literature was read with the ear as much as with the eye: silent reading was the exception; audible reading, the norm. This highly original book shows that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy - one of the most widely-read texts in Western history - aims to affect the listener through the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are arranged in patterns that havea therapeutic and liturgical purpose: as a bodily mediation of the text's consolation, these rhythmic patterns enable the listener to discern the eternal in the motion of time. The Consolation of Bo…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-102811-3
- EAN: 9780191028113
- Produktnummer: 18403987
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 398 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 5'810 KB
Über den Autor
Stephen J. Blackwood is President of Ralston College.
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