Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
by Erich Auerbach
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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.Tags
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At the time of his death Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University
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- Canonical title*
- Lingua letteraria e pubblico nella tarda antichità latina e nel Medioevo
- Original title
- Litteratursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und Mittelater
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- Literature Studies and Criticism, Nonfiction, Fiction and Literature
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- 870.9003 — Literature & rhetoric Latin & Italic literatures Latin literature and literatures of related Italic languages History and criticism of Latin literature
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- PA8027 .A813 — Language and Literature Greek language and literature. Latin language and literature Medieval and modern Latin literature
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