TY  - BOOK
AU  - Curtius,Ernst Robert
TI  - European literature and the Latin Middle Ages
T2  - Bollingen series
SN  - 9781400846153
AV  - PN674 
U1  - 809.02 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - European literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Literature, Medieval
KW  - Latin literature, Medieval and modern
KW  - Littérature européenne
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Littérature médiévale
KW  - Littérature latine médiévale et moderne
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Medieval
KW  - fast
KW  - Latein
KW  - gnd
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Mittellatein
KW  - Volkssprache
KW  - Europa
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Translated from the German; Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION TO THE 2013 EDITION; TRANSLATOR'S NOTE; NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT; AUTHOR'S FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION; GUIDING PRINCIPLES; 1: European Literature; 2: The Latin Middle Ages; 1. DANTE AND THE ANTIQUE POETS; 2. ANTIQUE AND MODERN WORLDS; 3. THE MIDDLE AGES; 4. THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES; 5. ROMANIA; 3: Literature and Education; 1. THE LIBERAL ARTS; 2. THE CONCEPT OF THE Artes IN THE MIDDLE AGES; 3. GRAMMAR; 4. ANGLO-SAXON AND CAROLINGIAN STUDIES; 5. CURRICULUM AUTHORS; 6. THE UNIVERSITIES; 7. Sententiae AND Exempla; 4: Rhetoric; 1. POSITION OF RHETORIC2. RHETORIC IN ANTIQUITY; 3. SYSTEM OF ANTIQUE RHETORIC; 4. LATE ROMAN ANTIQUITY; 5. JEROME; 6. AUGUSTINE; 7· CASSIODORUS AND ISIDORE; 8. Ars dictaminis; 9. WIBALD OF CORVEY AND JOHN OF SALISBURY; 10. RHETORIC, PAINTING, MUSIC; 5: Topics; 1. TOPICS OF CONSOLATORY ORATORY; 2. HISTORICAL TOPICS; 3. AFFECTED MODESTY; 4. TOPICS OF THE EXORDIUM; 5. TOPICS OF THE CONCLUSION; 6. INVOCATION OF NATURE; 7. THE WORLD UPSIDE-DOWN; 8. BOY AND OLD MAN; 9. OLD WOMAN AND GIRL; 6: The Goddess Natura; 1. FROM OVID TO CLAUDIAN; 2. BERNARD SILVESTRIS; 3. SODOMY; 4. ALAN OF LILLE; 5. EROS AND MORALITY6. THE ROMANCE OF THE ROSE; 7: Metaphorics; 1. NAUTICAL METAPHORS; 2. PERSONAL METAPHORS; 3. ALIMENTARY METAPHORS; 4. CORPORAL METAPHORS; 5. THEATRICAL METAPHORS; 8: Poetry and Rhetoric; 1. ANTIQUE POETICS; 2. POETRY AND PROSE; 3. SYSTEM OF MEDIEVAL STYLES; 4. JUDICIAL, POLITICAL, AND PANEGYRICAL ORATORY IN MEDIEVAL POETRY; 5. INEXPRESSIBILITY TOPOI; 6. OUTDOING; 7. EULOGY OF CONTEMPORARIES; 9: Heroes and Rulers; 1. HEROISM; 2. HOMERIC HEROES; 3. VIRGIL; 4· LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES; 5. PRAISE OF RULERS; 6. ARMS AND STUDIES; 7. NOBILITY OF SOUL; 8. BEAUTY; 10: The Ideal Landscape1. EXOTIC FAUNA AND FLORA; 2. GREEK POETRY; 3. VIRGIL; 4. RHETORICAL OCCASIONS FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF NATURE; 5. THE GROVE; 6. THE PLEASANCE; 7. EPIC LANDSCAPE; 11: Poetry and Philosophy; 1. HOMER AND ALLEGORY; 2. POETRY AND PHILOSOPHY; 3. PHILOSOPHY IN LATE PAGAN ANTIQUITY; 4. PHILOSOPHY AND CHRISTIANITY; 12: Poetry and Theology; 1. DANTE AND GIOVANNI DEL VIRGILIO; 2. ALBERTINO MUSSATO; 3. DANTE'S SELF-EXEGESIS; 4. PETRARCH AND BOCCACCIO; 13: The Muses; 14: Classicism; 1. GENRES, AND CATALOGUES OF AUTHORS; 2. THE ""ANCIENTS"" AND THE ""MODERNS""; 3. CANON FORMATION IN THE CHURCH4. MEDIEVAL CANON; 5. MODERN CANON FORMATION; 15: Mannerism; 1. CLASSICISM AND MANNERISM; 2. RHETORIC AND MANNERISM; 3. FORMAL MANNERISMS; 4. RECAPITULATION; 5. EPIGRAM AND THE STYLE OF pointes; 6. BALTASAR GRACIÁN; 16: The Book as Symbol; 1. GOETHE ON TROPES; 2. GREECE; 3. ROME; 4. THE BIBLE; 5. EARLY MIDDLE AGES; 6. HIGH MIDDLE AGES; 7. THE BOOK OF NATURE; 8. DANTE; 9. SHAKESPEARE; 10. WEST AND EAST; 17: Dante; 1. DANTE AS A CLASSIC; 2. DANTE AND LATINITY; 3· THE Commedia AND THE LITERARY GENRES; 4. EXEMPLARY FIGURES IN THE Commedia
N2  - 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
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