Rhetoric Review Oct 2012

The Present Time of Things Past: Julian of Norwich's Appropriation of St. Augustine's Generative Theory of Memory

Erin T. Chandler University of Alabama

Abstract

Reading Julian of Norwich through an Augustinian lens allows us to position her within extant rhetorical tradition while showing ways she revised that tradition. Engaging the Augustinian rhetoric of memory by focusing on the interpretive moves that Julian made to produce her texts reveals the important role of both memory and time in Julian's compositional process. Read this way, we see that Julian provided us with a hermeneutic for reading her texts within the vernacular tradition that reconceptualizes Augustine's generative theory of memory.

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Rhetoric Review
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2012-10-01
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10.1080/07350198.2012.711197
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