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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (Bollingen Series Book 180) Kindle Edition

by Ernst Robert Curtius (Author), Colin Burrow (Introduction, Contributor) Format: Kindle Edition
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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 literature from Homer to Goethe.

European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

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    Princeton University Press
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    July 21, 2013
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"We have in [this work] a vast store of significant learning, and many new and important insights into the humane literary heritage and its precarious transmission."---Francis Fergusson, The Hudson Review

"A balanced introduction to Curtius studies, putting this masterpiece in context as the work of a German academic 'mandarin' whom family history, character, and intellectual training made an advocate for an elite European cultural cosmopolitanism." ― Sixteenth Century Journal

"This is the sort of book which takes much of a man's lifetime to produce and which can be read again and again with profit and pleasure. In effect it is an analysis of medieval Latin literature as a major stage in the transition from the Graeco-Roman classics to the modern vernacular literatures. No forbidding catalogue of periods, authors, and works, but literary criticism and literary history by a thoughtful scholar at home in classical, medieval, and modern literature, this is a powerfully presented and richly informative study of medieval standards, values, assumptions and literary conventions." ― The Virginia Quarterly Review

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"Curtius's book, despite its age, remains vital for anyone interested in the fate of the classics in Western Europe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is at once a great resource and a model of how to think about literature and tradition. It is wonderful to have it readily available again."―Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00CFFYXVK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Princeton University Press; Revised edition (July 21, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 21, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 3826 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 682 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0691157006
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

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S.C.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Deep Stuff
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021
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Not sure if I even fully comprehend even 30% of this, seeing as how I am far from fluent in Latin. Wish I had read this before taking college lit courses. Can definitely see why T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom revered this book.
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Julian Lazaro
5.0 out of 5 stars it's really fun to read the introductions to medieval authors and subsequently ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2014
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As a student of classical Latin, it's really fun to read the introductions to medieval authors and subsequently struggle to comprehend the insane language that is medieval Latin. It's like reading mexican graffiti.

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Sherman Garnett
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2015
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A classic, long-established as essential.
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ddl
5.0 out of 5 stars What's most amazing is Curtius's scope of knowledge
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2018
If you are a serious student of literature, you cannot exist without this book. It's about everything you always wanted to know about everything. What's most amazing is Curtius's scope of knowledge; there are too many distractions in the present day to permit this kind of work--a centuries-long panorama that fits together the pieces of the puzzle of human literary associations.
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Leslie Gardner
5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2018
Seminal, readable book of great value - learning how to read, andunderstanding the ethos of literature - absolutely, you must know this book.
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éclectique
3.0 out of 5 stars Livre acheté en anglais car manquant en français - Très intéressant
Reviewed in France on September 8, 2014
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Je connaissais la réputation de ce livre de Curtius. Après avoir cherché sa version française et ne pas l'avoir trouvée, j'ai acheté la version anglaise.
Très intéressant et très varié, Curtius analyse la littérature latine du moyen-âge sous de multiples aspects.
C'est aussi bien un livre pour les spécialistes que pour ceux qui s'intéressent au sujet.
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Melomane
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 26, 2014
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Recommended if your interested in medieval literature and/or history. Saves a lot of research and provides the links between the Roman world and literature and thinking of our own times.
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