European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
by Ernst Robert Curtius
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- Original title
- Europäische Literatur und Lateinisches Mittelalter
- Original publication date
- 1948
- Dedication*
- Alla memoria di Gustav Gröber (1844-1911) e Aby Warburg (1866-1929)
- Original language
- German
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Fiction and Literature, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 809.02 — Literature & rhetoric Literature, rhetoric & criticism History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures By Period 6th-15th centuries, 500-1499
- LCC
- PN674 .C82 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Literary history By period Medieval (to 1500)
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- 8 — Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 28
- ASINs
- 13
