Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach

Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach

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.

"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 (November 9, 1892 in Berlin - October 13, 1957 in Wallingford, Connecticut) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and critic of literature. His best-known work is Mimesis, a history of representation in Western literature from ancient to modern times.

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ISBN 13	9780691024684
ISBN 10	0691024685
Titre	Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
Auteur	Erich Auerbach
Série	Bollingen Series
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Princeton University Press
Année de publication	1993-06-06
Nombre de pages	456
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