Name: European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages By Ernst Robert Curtius
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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages Summary

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages: Updated Edition by Ernst Robert Curtius

In this magnificent book (T. S. Eliot), Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956), one of the foremost literary scholars of this century, examines the continuity of European literature from Homer to Goethe, with particular emphasis on the Latin Middle Ages. In an extensive new epilogue, drawing on hitherto unpublished material, Peter Godman analyzes the intellectual and political context and character of Curtius' ideas.

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages Reviews

This is the sort of book which takes much of a man's lifetime to produce and which can be read again and again with profit and pleasure. In effect it is an analysis of medieval Latin literature as a major stage in the transition from the Graeco-Roman classics to the modern vernacular literatures. No forbidding catalogue of periods, authors, and works, but literary criticism and literary history by a thoughtful scholar at home in classical, medieval, and modern literature, this is a powerfully presented and richly informative study of medieval standards, values, assumptions and literary conventions.--The Virginia Quarterly Review We have in [this work] a vast store of significant learning, and many new and important insights into the humane literary heritage and its precarious transmission.--Francis Fergusson, The Hudson Review A balanced introduction to Curtius studies, putting this masterpiece in context as the work of a German academic mandarin whom family history, character, and intellectual training made an advocate for an elite European cultural cosmopolitanism.--Sixteenth Century Journal

About Ernst Robert Curtius

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.

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9780691018997

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0691018995

Title

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages: Updated Edition by Ernst Robert Curtius

Author

Ernst Robert Curtius

Series

Bollingen Series

Condition

Used - Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year published

19910221

Number of pages

736

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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages Ernst Robert Curtius

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