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

by Erich Auerbach

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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 a... Read more

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.

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File size6.00(w)x9.25(h)x(d)
Print pages456
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Publication date June 6, 1993
ISBN9780691024684
Erich Auerbach, before his death in 1957, was Sterling Professor of Romance Languages at Yale University....

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