European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

By Ernst Robert Curtius

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006CGI2Q
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Length: 658 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A Classic.

This book is a classic. A real monument of culture, produced by this philological mind of the twentieth century. Its pages have consistently revealed the powerful medieval literature, totally breaking the idea of a dead age to literature. His commentary on St. Augustine`s Confessions (chap.IV, rethoric), as well as the excerpt of St. Augustine`s work that he brings to us, are pearls of the literary critic. We can hardly find nowadays an erudit of this kind. Yes, his work has a lot of problems, maybe even some errors and some avoidable historicism. Yes, his work is an old one. Yes, his bergsonian introduction is boring. Yes, some of his interpretations are doubtful. But you can`t really pass through the Middle Ages without reading this classic.