By Stephen Blackwood
All through Antiquity and the center a long time, literature used to be learn with the ear up to with the attention: silent studying used to be the exception; audible analyzing, the norm. This hugely unique publication indicates that Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy--one of the main widely-read texts in Western history--aims to impact the listener during the designs of its rhythmic sound. Stephen Blackwood argues that the Consolation's metres are prepared in styles that experience a healing and liturgical goal: as a physically mediation of the text's comfort, those rhythmic styles permit the listener to figure the everlasting within the movement of time. The comfort of Boethius as Poetic Liturgy vividly explores how during this acoustic stumble upon with the textual content philosophy turns into a lived fact, and examining one of those prayer.
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