Listening for the Text: On the Uses of the Past

by Brian Stock and Professor Brian Stock

Book Overview

"Ours is largely an ahistorical world. And yet we take history very seriously. The more remote the past becomes, the more we seem to concern ourselves with understanding it. We are no longer linked to our ancestors through common material conditions. If earlier ages still have a hold on us, it is through our thoughts about them.

"The essays in this volume are about a segment of the past that runs roughly from the end of antiquity to the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812216121
• ISBN13: 9780812216127
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"