The Cambridge History Of Literary Criticism Vol.2 "The Middle Ages"

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Autor: MINNIS, ALASTAIR.

Editorial: Cambridge University Press

Colección: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism

Idioma: Castellano

Estado: Consultar disponibilidad

Precio: 175.00€

Descripción de la obra

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This is the first-ever history of the literary theory and criticism produced during the Middle Ages that covers all the main traditions in Latin, the major European vernaculars, and Byzantine Greek. Starting with the study of grammar and the formal 'arts' of poetry, letter-writing and preaching, it proceeds to offer a full description of the Latin commentary tradition on classical and classicizing literature, followed by explanations of medieval views on literary imagination and memory, and the ways in which certain texts were believed to achieve moral profit through pleasure. Subsequent essays explore the diverse theoretical and critical traditions which developed in the vernacular languages, ranging from Medieval Irish to Old Norse, Occitan to Middle High German, concentrating particularly on Dante and his commentators and Italian humanist criticism. The volume concludes with an examination of the attitudes to literature and its uses in Greek Byzantium.


The first ever full-scale history of medieval literary theory and criticism
Covers all of medieval Western European literatures and will interest medievalists in a wide range of subjects and languages, including medieval Latin, emergent vernaculars and Byzantine Greek
Includes essays by 30 well-respected scholars from a range of fields and disciplines