Literary Language & Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

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.

Author: Erich Auerbach
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 06/06/1993
Pages: 456
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.03w x 1.07d
ISBN: 9780691024684

About the Author
Erich Auerbach (1892-1957) was Sterling Professor of Romance Philology at Yale University. His Mimesis is also available from Princeton University Press.