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Augustine and America: Five contemporary autobiographical works.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Augustine and America: Five contemporary autobiographical works./
Author:	Gillespie, Dennis Patrick.
Description:	248 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: A, page: 1801.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International49-07A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8817942

Augustine and America: Five contemporary autobiographical works.
Gillespie, Dennis Patrick.

Augustine and America: Five contemporary autobiographical works. - 248 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-07, Section: A, page: 1801.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Loyola University Chicago, 1988.

To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the Augustinian autobiographical paradigm, Chapter One explicates the final book of the Confessions in which Augustine shapes an allegory and locates his life within God's universal order.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Literature, American.

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520 $a To gain a more comprehensive understanding of the Augustinian autobiographical paradigm, Chapter One explicates the final book of the Confessions in which Augustine shapes an allegory and locates his life within God's universal order.
520 $a This study examines five contemporary American autobiographical works in the context of the paradigm established by Saint Augustine in the Confessions. Because of its comprehensiveness, rhetorical strategies and historical importance, the Confessions is relevant to any reading of an autobiographical work. Today it is especially valuable. The Confessions anticipates contemporary themes of indeterminacy and fragmentation, as well as concerns with self, memory and language. The Confessions was conceived as a prayer and is thus a model for defining the autobiographical project as a process taking place within the present time of the writer.
520 $a From the time of the first-generation Puritans, Augustine has had an important presence in American thought. The Introduction to the dissertation analyzes works by Thomas Shepard, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Adams as reflective of Augustine's influence.
520 $a Chapter Two through Chapter Five provide close textual analyses of John Ashbery's Three Poems, James Merrill's "The Book of Ephraim," Robert Lowell's Day by Day, Lyn Hejinians's My Life and Frank Bidart's "Confessional," making frequent comparisons between the works and the Confessions. These writers often evoke Augustinian categories of grace, confession and epiphany and write as intensely as any penitent. Their range, however, can also embrace wit, casualness and bemusement. They also employ a wide range of non-narrative approaches which include combining lyric and prose, reliance on dialogues, the fracturing of chronology, a randomness of relationship among sentences, and the attempt to replicate psychotherapeutic sessions.
520 $a When Augustine considered fragmentation and indeterminacy, he took comfort in his faith. Autobiographers today adopt variant strategies: fashioning a person myth (Merrill); the foregrounding of consciousness (Ashbery); probing the paradigm offered by psychopathology (Bidart); explorations of language as determinant of self (Hejinian); and modest acceptance of the quotidian (Lowell). Yet the categories of experience Augustine identifies continue to resonate for autobiographers who do not share his ultimate vision of union with God.
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