Ernst Robert Curtius

Ernst Robert Curtius (18861956) var en tysk litteraturforskare och romanist, vars klassiker Europeisk litteratur och latinsk medeltid (1948) har kommit i otaliga utgåvor. Hans studie Marcel Proust (1925) är en av de första böckerna om Proust. Curtius blev tidigt en av Prousts förespråkare och stod även i kontakt med honom. Analysen av På spaning efter den tid som flytt har, trots att den är närmast ett sekel gammal, inte förlorat sin aktualitet eller betydelse för förståelsen av och forskningen om Proust. Ulf Claësson har översatt boken och Johan Sehlberg, Proustforskare och filosof, har skrivit ett efterord.

The correspondence between the renowned French writer Andre Gide and the German Romanist and great scholar Ernst Robert Curtius deals with many fascinating subjects: literature and writing, conflicting relations between their two countries, political and cultural debate, translation, literary criticism, etc.

The correspondence between the renowned French writer Andre Gide and the German Romanist and great scholar Ernst Robert Curtius deals with many fascinating subjects: literature and writing, conflicting relations between their two countries, political and cultural debate, translation, literary criticism, etc.

Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, much of his work is still unknown to them. These twenty-four essays, written over a period of nearly thirty years, range widely in time and scope and consider some of the greatest figures in European literature, among them Virgil, Goethe, Balzac, Joyce, Eliot, Ortega y Gasset, and Hesse. The essays show the qualities that made Curtius one of the great critics of our age: his lucid, penetrating mind, his comprehensive erudition, his cosmopolitan outlook, and above all his passionate concern for European culture. Like T. S. Eliot, the subject of one of his finest essays, Curtius believed in an ideal order, a cultural unity of the West. The unifying element in all these essays is a concern to insure the conservation and continuance of European humanistic culture. For him this culture consisted of the literary heritage of Greece and Rome, developed and enriched by the Christian civilization of the Middle Ages. Consequently he selected for discussion those poets and writers who have been conscious of the unity of these two European currents and who have striven to maintain it in our time. As he ranged freely through the languages and literatures of all Western cultures, Curtius himself did much to preserve this tradition, to demonstrate its relevance, and insure its continuity. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Der Briefwechsel zwischen dem Bonner Romanisten Ernst Robert Curtius (1886-1956) und dem Schweizer Literaturkritiker Max Rychner (1897-1965) umfasst 604 Briefe aus den Jahren 1922 bis 1955. Curtius hat Arbeiten zu romanistischen und verwandten literaturwissenschaftlichen Themen veroffentlicht und Autoren wie Proust, Gide, Joyce, Ortega y Gasset u.a. in Deutschland bekannt gemacht. Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg war er ein gesuchter Gesprachspartner im deutsch-franzosischen Aussohnungsdialog. Aus der Feder Rychners stammen uber 2700 Beitrage zu literarischen und kulturellen Neuerscheinungen. Die Korrespondenz enthalt wichtige Erganzungen der gedruckten Produktion. Alle Briefe werden in ihrer Originalform wiedergegeben und sind zum besseren Verstandnis mit Erlauterungen versehen.

Although the reputation of the great German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius was firmly established for English and American readers by the translation of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, much of his work is still unknown to them. These twenty-four essays, written over a period of nearly thirty years, range widely in time and scope and consider some of the greatest figures in European literature, among them Virgil, Goethe, Balzac, Joyce, Eliot, Ortega y Gasset, and Hesse. The essays show the qualities that made Curtius one of the great critics of our age: his lucid, penetrating mind, his comprehensive erudition, his cosmopolitan outlook, and above all his passionate concern for European culture. Like T. S. Eliot, the subject of one of his finest essays, Curtius believed in an ideal order, a cultural unity of the West. The unifying element in all these essays is a concern to insure the conservation and continuance of European humanistic culture. For him this culture consisted of the literary heritage of Greece and Rome, developed and enriched by the Christian civilization of the Middle Ages. Consequently he selected for discussion those poets and writers who have been conscious of the unity of these two European currents and who have striven to maintain it in our time. As he ranged freely through the languages and literatures of all Western cultures, Curtius himself did much to preserve this tradition, to demonstrate its relevance, and insure its continuity. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

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