European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages / / Ernst Robert Curtius.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Curtius, Ernst Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Burrow, Colin,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burrow, Colin.
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: With a New introduction by Colin Burrow
• Language: English
• Series: Bollingen Series (General) ; 180
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (752 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Introduction to the 2013 edition --; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE --; NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT --; AUTHOR'S FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION --; GUIDING PRINCIPLES --; 1. European Literature --; 2. The Latin Middle Ages --; 3. Literature and Education --; 4. Rhetoric --; 5. Topics --; 6. The Goddess Natura --; 7. Metaphorics --; 8. Poetry and Rhetoric --; 9. Heroes and Rulers --; 10. The Ideal Landscape --; 11. Poetry and Philosophy --; 12. Poetry and Theology --; 13. The Muses --; 14. Classicism --; 15. Mannerism --; 16. The Book as Symbol --; 17. Dante --; 18. Epilogue --; EXCURSUSES --; APPENDIX. The Medieval Bases of Western Thought --; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE --; ABBREVIATIONS --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781400846153; 9783110442496
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400846153
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ernst Robert Curtius.

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.