Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
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1993
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780691024684
Published
1993-06-06
Publisher
Princeton University Press; Princeton University Press
Weight
652 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
P, U, 06, 05
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Engelsk
Format
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Heftet
Number of pages
456
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Biographical note
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University. His Mimesis is also available from Princeton University Press."Auerbach magically relates the story of Christian transformation of the ... styles of classical pagan antiquity with the lowly style accepted as standard in the Middle Ages until the reemergence of the sublime style through Dante's Divine Comedy."--The Virginia Quarterly Review "This book, like [Mimesis], is necessary reading... [Its] penetration of the Western public and its language is both subtle and powerful... The existence and the delights of his book and of the lifework it completed are an enormous beacon burning against despair."--The Times Literary Supplement
In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
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Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, this book explores the concerns such as: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
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Foreword (1993)PrefaceIntroduction: Purpose and Method31Sermo Humilis25Excursus: Gloria Passionis672Latin Prose in the Early Middle Ages833Camilla, or, The Rebirth of the Sublime1814The Western Public and Its Language235Abbreviations341List of Works Cited343General Index373Index of Latin Words389Bibliography of the Writings of Erich Auerbach391Biographical Note407
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Product details
ISBN
9780691024684
Published
1993-06-06
Publisher
Princeton University Press; Princeton University Press
Weight
652 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
152 mm
Age
P, U, 06, 05
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
456
Author
Translated by