List Books » Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, Vol. 74
Authors: Erich Auerbach, Annie Auerbach, Ralph Manheim
ISBN-13: 9780691024684, ISBN-10: 0691024685
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Date Published: May 1993
Edition: Reprint
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.
This book, like [Mimesis], is necessary reading. . . . [Its] penetration of the Western public and its language is both subtle and powerful. . . . The existence and the delights of his book and of the lifework it completed are an enormous beacon burning against despair.
Foreword (1993) | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction: Purpose and Method | 3 | |
1 | Sermo Humilis | 25 |
Excursus: Gloria Passionis | 67 | |
2 | Latin Prose in the Early Middle Ages | 83 |
3 | Camilla, or, The Rebirth of the Sublime | 181 |
4 | The Western Public and Its Language | 235 |
Abbreviations | 341 | |
List of Works Cited | 343 | |
General Index | 373 | |
Index of Latin Words | 389 | |
Bibliography of the Writings of Erich Auerbach | 391 | |
Biographical Note | 407 |