European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages / / 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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (752 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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