Author: William Paton Ker
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Dark Ages
Author: William Paton Ker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A History of European Literature
Author: Walter Cohen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191078913
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191078913
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and by the ties of European literature to world literature. World literature is marked by recurrent, systematic features, outcomes of the way that language and literature are at once the products of major change and its agents. Cohen tracks these features from ancient times to the present, distinguishing five main overlapping stages. Within that framework, he shows that European literatures ongoing internal and external relationships are most visible at the level of form rather than of thematic statement or mimetic representation. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe — during antiquity, whose Classical languages are the heirs to the complex heritage of Afro-Eurasia. This legacy is later transmitted by Latin to the various vernaculars. The uniqueness of the process lies in the gradual displacement of the learned language by the vernacular, long dominated by Romance literatures. That development subsequently informs the second crucial differentiating dimension of European literature: the multicontinental expansion of its languages and characteristic genres, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. This expansion ultimately results in the reintegration of European literature into world literature and thus in the creation of todays global literary system. The distinctiveness of European literature is to be found in these interrelated trajectories.
The Dark Ages
Author: William Paton Ker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Periods of European Literature: The dark ages
Author: William Paton Ker
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Dark Ages
Periods of European Literature
Author: George Saintsbury
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A History of European Literature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times
Author: John Reynell Morell
Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Periods of European Literature
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
Author: Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691157006
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691157006
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
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.
The Middle Ages
Author: Captivating History
Publisher: Ch Publications
ISBN: 9781950922000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
One of the least understood periods of European history occurred between the 6th century and the 14th or 15th century (depending on which historian you ask). Commonly called the Middle Ages, this was a time period of extreme change for Europe, beginning with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Publisher: Ch Publications
ISBN: 9781950922000
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
One of the least understood periods of European history occurred between the 6th century and the 14th or 15th century (depending on which historian you ask). Commonly called the Middle Ages, this was a time period of extreme change for Europe, beginning with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.