Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
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Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
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.
"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
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University. His Mimesis is also available from Princeton University Press.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691024684 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691024685 |
| Title | Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages |
| Author | Erich Auerbach |
| Series | Bollingen Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1993-06-06 |
| Number of pages | 456 |
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