Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages, Vol. 74

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by Erich Auerbach,

Translated by Ralph Manheim,

by Jan M Ziolkowski

Princeton University Press

Due/Published January 1994, 408 pages, paper

ISBN 0691024685

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.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.