Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages (Bollingen Series, 26) - Hardcover

Auerbach, Erich

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691097828 ISBN 13: 9780691097824

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1965

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The Description for this book, Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, will be forthcoming.

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This book, like Ý"Mimesis"¨, is necessary reading. . . . ÝIts¨ 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.
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
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

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"

"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

-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

About the Author

Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University. His Mimesis is also available from Princeton University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1965
• ISBN 10: 0691097828
• ISBN 13: 9780691097824
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 456