Literary language & its public in late Latin antiquity and in the Middle Ages / Erich Auerbach ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auerbach, Erich, 1892-1957.

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bollingen series ; 74.

Bollingen series ; 74

Standardized Title:

Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Latin literature--History and criticism.

Latin literature.

Latin language, Postclassical.

Authors and readers--Europe.

Authors and readers.

Authors and readers--Rome.

Literary style.

Europe.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 405 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Literary language and its public in late Latin antiquity and in the Middle Ages.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1993.

Summary:

In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach states, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the influence of classical Latin rhetoric throughout literary history from late antiquity to the modern era, Auerbach continues to explore many of the issues presented in his Mimesis. For example, he draws attention to the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and raises issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new contemporary historicism.

Contents:

Introduction: Purpose and Method 3

1. Sermo Humilis 25

Excursus: Gloria Passionis 67

2. Latin Prose in the Early Middle Ages 83

3. Camilla, or, The Rebirth of the Sublime 181

4. The Western Public and Its Language 235.

Notes:

Translation of: Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-369) and index.

ISBN:

0691024685

OCLC:

26856304