The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume III. The Renaissance. - NORTON, G.P., (ed.),
The Renaissance
KORTE INHOUD
This volume is the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western literary-critical heritage, the book encompasses those issues that helped shape the way European writers thought about literature from the late Middle Ages to the late seventeenth century. These issues touched almost every facet of Western intellectual endeavour, as well as the historical, cultural, social, scientific, and technological contexts in which that activity evolved. From the interpretative reassessment of the major ancient poetic texts, this volume addresses the emergence of the literary critic in Europe by exploring poetics, prose fiction, contexts of criticism, neoclassicism, and national developments. Sixty-one chapters by internationally respected scholars are supported by an introduction, detailed bibliographies for further investi...
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2001Uitgever: Cambridge University Press782 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521300088ISBN-13: 9780521300087Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Cambridge (...), 2001. Reprint 1st ed. XXIII,758p. Hardbound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Nice copy. (Rare thus).Antiquarian Titel: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume III. The Renaissance. Auteur: NORTON, G.P., (ed.),
This volume is the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western liter...
This volume is the first to explore as part of an unbroken continuum the critical legacy both of the humanist rediscovery of ancient learning and of its neoclassical reformulation. Focused on what is arguably the most complex phase in the transmission of the Western liter...
