Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages: 131 (Bollingen Series (General))

by Ralph Manheim (Translator), Erich Auerbach (Author)

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  1993

  $69.67

  Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, this book explores the concerns such as: 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.