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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages /

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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Main Author: Curtius, Ernst Robert, 1886-1956 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Alemán
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 l.
Item Description:Translated from the German.
Physical Description:1 online resource (752 pages).
ISBN:9781400846153