European literature and the Latin Middle Ages /Ernst Robert Curtius ; translated from the German by Willard R. Trask.
Curtius, Ernst Robert, 1886-1956.,
European literature and the Latin Middle Ages /Ernst Robert Curtius ; translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1973. - xv, 662 pages ; 22 cm. - Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks .
Translation of Europ aische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter. Reprint of the edition published by Pantheon Books, New York, which was issued as numbers 36 of the Bollingen series.
European literature -- The Latin Middle Ages -- Literature and education -- Rhetoric -- Topics -- The goddess Natura -- Metaphorics -- Poetry and rhetoric -- Heroes and rulers -- The ideal landscape -- Poetry and philosophy -- Poetry and theology -- The muses -- Classicism -- Mannerism -- The book as symbol -- Dante -- Epilogue -- Misunderstandings of antiquity in the Middle Ages -- Devotional formula and humility -- Grammatical and rhetorical technical terms as metaphors -- Jest and earnest in medieval literature -- Late antique literary studies -- Early Christian and medieval literary studies -- The mode of existence of the medieval poet -- The poet's divine frenzy -- Poetry as perpetuation -- Poetry as entertainment -- Poetry and scholasticism -- The poet's pride -- Brevity as an ideal of style -- Etymology as a category of thought -- Numerical composition -- Numerical apothegms -- Mention of the author's name in medieval literature -- The "chivalric system of the virtues" -- The ape as metaphor -- Spain's cultural "belatedness" -- God as Maker -- Theological art-theory in the Spanish literature of the seventeenth century -- Calderon's theory of art and the Artes liberales -- Montesquieu, Ovid, and Virgil -- Diderot and Horace -- The medieval bases of Western thought.
75302368
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.
PN674 / .E976 1973 PN674
European literature and the Latin Middle Ages /Ernst Robert Curtius ; translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1973. - xv, 662 pages ; 22 cm. - Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks .
Translation of Europ aische Literatur und lateinisches Mittelalter. Reprint of the edition published by Pantheon Books, New York, which was issued as numbers 36 of the Bollingen series.
European literature -- The Latin Middle Ages -- Literature and education -- Rhetoric -- Topics -- The goddess Natura -- Metaphorics -- Poetry and rhetoric -- Heroes and rulers -- The ideal landscape -- Poetry and philosophy -- Poetry and theology -- The muses -- Classicism -- Mannerism -- The book as symbol -- Dante -- Epilogue -- Misunderstandings of antiquity in the Middle Ages -- Devotional formula and humility -- Grammatical and rhetorical technical terms as metaphors -- Jest and earnest in medieval literature -- Late antique literary studies -- Early Christian and medieval literary studies -- The mode of existence of the medieval poet -- The poet's divine frenzy -- Poetry as perpetuation -- Poetry as entertainment -- Poetry and scholasticism -- The poet's pride -- Brevity as an ideal of style -- Etymology as a category of thought -- Numerical composition -- Numerical apothegms -- Mention of the author's name in medieval literature -- The "chivalric system of the virtues" -- The ape as metaphor -- Spain's cultural "belatedness" -- God as Maker -- Theological art-theory in the Spanish literature of the seventeenth century -- Calderon's theory of art and the Artes liberales -- Montesquieu, Ovid, and Virgil -- Diderot and Horace -- The medieval bases of Western thought.
75302368
Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.
PN674 / .E976 1973 PN674