Most comprehensive theological and psychological principles: theĭistinction and connection of the four modes of cognition theĭivine vision that includes all things and the human activity of On the kinds of repetition that make up this intricate system.Ĭhapter 4, by means of a close reading of Book 5, sets thisĪcoustic system in relation to the Consolation's To recollection and the role of memoria in theįormation of the soul, and concludes with an analogical reflection Of the chapter situates this intricate rhythmic system in relation Repetition that make up an intricate system that comprehends every

The first part of Chapter 3 contains an extensiveįormal analysis, which discovers several levels of rhythmic Obvious metric repetitions of the text, and posits a therapeutic Prisoner's physical and psychological state. Seven poems, and to the interplay between these rhythms and the Reading of Book 1, and attends especially to the rhythms of its Of aurality, both by evoking ancient literary culture, in whichīooks were typically read aloud, and by pointing to the Consolation's many references to its own sound, and The Introduction sets the dissertation's analysis in the context The programmatic therapy, or consolation, the text aims to This dissertation argues that the poetic rhythms are essential to Structure, there has never been a systematic study of these meters. However,ĭespite the work's immense popularity and exquisitely crafted Poetic meters than any other surviving ancient text. Poetry and prose, the Consolation contains more This dissertation examines the role of poetic meter in Boethius'Ĭonsolation of Philosophy.

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