The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 2 The Middle Ages /

The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism Volume 2 The Middle Ages /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (882 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism ; no. 2 The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism ; no. 2.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10513677

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Other authors / contributors:	Minnis, Alastair, editor of compilation. Johnson, Ian, editor of compilation.
ISBN:	9781139053891 (ebook) 9780521300070 (hardback) 9780521317184 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Feb 2016).
Summary:	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 classicising 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.
Other form:	Print version: 9780521300070

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Summary:	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 classicising 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.
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Feb 2016).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (882 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:	9781139053891 (ebook) 9780521300070 (hardback) 9780521317184 (paperback)