European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

Zusatztext "This is, I think, the finest work of literary scholarship in my time, by the great German philologist Ernst Robert Curtius. It is an extraordinary study of the continuity of European literature, from Homer and the other Greeks, on through Virgil and the great Latin writers, to a culmination in Dante, and moving beyond to a consideration of a long tradition that concludes with Goethe. . . . It is from Curtius that I have learned--and others go on learning--what literature is, and why I myself would call it a way of life and a way of thought." ---Harold Bloom, FiveBooks Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext "Curtius's book, despite its age, remains vital for anyone interested in the fate of the classics in Western Europe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is at once a great resource and a model of how to think about literature and tradition. It is wonderful to have it readily available again." --Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Zusammenfassung "Paperback reissue with a new introduction by Colin Burrow, 2013"--t.p. verso.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ernst Curtius, Ernst Robert Curtius, Curtius Ernst Robert
• Assisted by: Colin Burrow (Introduction), Burrow Colin (Introduction), Willard R. Trask (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2013
• EAN: 9780691157009
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15700-9
• No. of pages: 696
• Series: Bollingen; Bollingen Series (General); Bollingen Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval