Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
(Paperback, Revised edition)
Publishing Details
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages
By (Author) Erich Auerbach
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
17th August 1993
Revised edition
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval
870.9
Physical Properties
Paperback
456
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
652g
Description
In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.
Reviews
"Auerbach magically relates the story of Christian transformation of the ... styles of classical pagan antiquity with the lowly style accepted as standard in the Middle Ages until the reemergence of the sublime style through Dante's Divine Comedy..."--The Virginia Quarterly Review "This book, like [Mimesis], is necessary reading... [Its] penetration of the Western public and its language is both subtle and powerful... The existence and the delights of his book and of the lifework it completed are an enormous beacon burning against despair."--The Times Literary Supplement
Author Bio
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University. His Mimesis is also available from Princeton University Press.
