Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

Erich Auerbach, Ralph Manheim, Jan M. Ziolkowski

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Princeton University Pres
17 August 1993

Semantics; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History

Series: Bollingen Series

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.

By: Erich Auerbach
Foreword by: Jan M. Ziolkowski
Translated by: Ralph Manheim
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: v. 74
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 652g
ISBN: 9780691024684
ISBN 10: 0691024685
Series: Bollingen Series
Pages: 456
Publication Date: 17 August 1993
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword (1993)PrefaceIntroduction: Purpose and Method31Sermo Humilis25Excursus: Gloria Passionis672Latin Prose in the Early Middle Ages833Camilla, or, The Rebirth of the Sublime1814The Western Public and Its Language235Abbreviations341List of Works Cited343General Index373Index of Latin Words389Bibliography of the Writings of Erich Auerbach391Biographical Note407

Reviews for Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

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