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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Curtius, Ernst Robert, 1886-1956. European literature and the Latin Middle Ages. [New York] Pantheon Books [1953] (OCoLC)570739496 Online version: Curtius, Ernst Robert, 1886-1956. European literature and the Latin Middle Ages. [New York] Pantheon Books [1953] (OCoLC)607717468 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ernst Robert Curtius |
| OCLC Number: | 328540 |
| Description: | xv, 662 p. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. European literature -- 2. The Latin Middle Ages -- 3. Literature and education -- 4. Rhetoric -- 5. Topics -- 6. The goddess Natura -- 7. Metaphorics -- 8. Poetry and rhetoric -- 9. Heroes and rulers -- 10. The ideal landscape -- 11. Poetry and philosophy -- 12. Poetry and theology -- 13. The muses -- 14. Classicism -- 15. Mannerism -- 16. The book as symbol -- 17. Dante -- 18. Epilogue -- Excursuses: Misunderstandings of antiquity in the Middle Ages ; Devotional formula and humility ; Grammatical and rhetorical technical terms as metaphors ; Jest and earnest in medieval literature ; Late antique literary studies ; Early Christian and medieval literary studies ; The mode of existence of the medieval poet ; The poet's divine frenzy ; Poetry as perpetuation ; Poetry as entertainment ; Poetry and scholasticism ; The poet's pride ; Brevity as an ideal of style ; Etymology as a category of thought ; Numerical composition ; Numerical apothegms ; Mention of the author's name in medieval literature ; The "chivalric system of the virtues" ; The ape as metaphor ; Spain's cultural "belatedness" ; God as Maker ; Theological art-theory in the Spanish literature of the seventeenth century ; Calderon's theory of art and the Artes liberales ; Montesquieu, Ovid, and Virgil ; Diderot and Horace -- Appendix: The medieval bases of Western thought. |
| Series Title: | Bollingen series, 36. |
| Responsibility: | translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. |
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