Literary language & its public in late Latin antiquity and in the Middle Ages

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Literary language & its public in late Latin antiquity and in the Middle Ages

Erich Auerbach ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim

(Bollingen series, 74)

Princeton University Press, 1993

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Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter

Literary language and its public

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Translation of: Literatursprache und Publikum in der lateinischen Spätantike und im Mittelalter

Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-369) and indexes

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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.

Table of Contents

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

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