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Saint Augustine's Childhood |
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| Book: Hardcover | 5.47 x 7.83in | 208 pages | ISBN 9780670030019 | 01 Oct 2001 | Viking Adult | 18 - AND UP |
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In Garry Wills's biography of Saint Augustine for the Penguin Lives series, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author brilliantly documented the life of the great Christian thinker. His translations of passages of Saint Augustine's influential Confessiones were hailed as "sizzling" (Peter Brown, New York Review of Books). James Wood, writing for the London Review of Books declared, "Augustine flourishes in Wills's hand." Now, Wills has taken on a translation of the first of four books of the Confessiones, "Childhood."
Wills's broad-ranging and incisive discussion of the style, structure, and themes of "Childhood" brings a fresh perspective to this classic work, including the juxtaposition of Augustine's concept of childhood and the learning of language with the ideas of Noam Chomsky and current research. Beautifully designed and translated by "America's greatest living intellectual" (The American Prospect), "Childhood" will be sought after by academics, Christians, and the general reader.
Saint Augustine's Childhood
Key to Brief Citations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Part I. Introduction
1. The Man and His Book
2. The Book's Genre
3. The Book's Title
4. The Book's Style
5. The Book's Imagery
6. The Book's Rhetoric
7. Translating the Book
Part II: The Testimony: Book One
1. How to Begin?
II. In-Fans (Speechless)
III. Childhood (Speaking)
IV. Schooling
V. Conforming to a Deforming Society
Part III. Commentary
Part IV. Appendix: The Teacher
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