Curtius European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

With a New introduction by Colin Burrow
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4615-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 752 Seiten

Reihe: Bollingen Series

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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Curtius, Ernst Robert

Weitere Mitwirkende

Burrow, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. v
Introduction to the 2013 edition, pg. xi
TRANSLATOR’S NOTE, pg. xxi
NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT, pg. xxii
AUTHOR’S FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION, pg. xxiii
GUIDING PRINCIPLES, pg. xxviii
1. European Literature, pg. 1
2. The Latin Middle Ages, pg. 17
3. Literature and Education, pg. 36
4. Rhetoric, pg. 62
5. Topics, pg. 79
6. The Goddess Natura, pg. 106
7. Metaphorics, pg. 128
8. Poetry and Rhetoric, pg. 145
9. Heroes and Rulers, pg. 167
10. The Ideal Landscape, pg. 183
11. Poetry and Philosophy, pg. 203
12. Poetry and Theology, pg. 214
13. The Muses, pg. 228
14. Classicism, pg. 247
15. Mannerism, pg. 273
16. The Book as Symbol, pg. 302
17. Dante, pg. 348
18. Epilogue, pg. 380
EXCURSUSES, pg. 403
APPENDIX. The Medieval Bases of Western Thought, pg. 587
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, pg. 599
ABBREVIATIONS, pg. 600
INDEX, pg. 603

Über Autor(innen)

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.