European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

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Princeton University Press, 1973 - History - 662 pages

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe.


European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

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Contents

THE LIBERAL arts
36
Rhetoric
60
Topics
79
Copyright

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About the author (1973)

Ernst Robert Curtius held the chair of romance literature and language at Bonn University from 1929 until his retirement in 1951. Colin Burrow is a fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Epic Romance: Homer to Milton.

Bibliographic information

TitleEuropean Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
Bollingen Library
Volume 57 of Bollingen Series (General) Series
Bollingen series
Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks
AuthorErnst Robert Curtius
Editionreprint
PublisherPrinceton University Press, 1973
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedJan 19, 2010
ISBN069101793X, 9780691017938
Length662 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Europe / Medieval
Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical
Literary Criticism / European / General
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Medieval
Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory
Philosophy / Aesthetics
  
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