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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R5,136
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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages (Hardcover, New): Alastair Minnis, Ian Johnson

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume 2, The Middle Ages (Hardcover, New)

Alastair Minnis, Ian Johnson

Series: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism

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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.

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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism
Release date: May 2005
First published: 2005
Editors: Alastair Minnis • Ian Johnson
Dimensions: 236 x 160 x 50mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 882
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-30007-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > General
LSN: 0-521-30007-X
Barcode: 9780521300070

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