A history of European literature : the West and the world from antiquity to the present

Walter Cohen argues that the history of European literature and of each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and of the relationship of European literature to world literature. The global history of literature from...

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Auteur principal : Cohen Walter (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : A history of European literature : the West and the world from antiquity to the present / Walter Cohen
Publié : Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XII-612 p.)
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Documents associés : Autre format: A History of European Literature
  • I. Introduction
  • Part 1: Antiquity
  • 2. The old world literary system
  • 3. Empire and its discontents in classical Latin
  • Part 2: The vernacular: from the Middle Ages to early modernity
  • 4. The vernacular
  • 5. Medieval epic
  • 6. Medieval lyric
  • 7. Medieval narrative after 1100
  • 8. Language, literature, and popular culture in the Age of Reformation
  • Part 3: Early modernity
  • 9. The representation of empire in the Renaissance, 1: Europe and the Mediterranean
  • 10. The representation of empire in the Renaissance, 2: global perspectives
  • 11. Eurasian literature through the eighteenth century
  • Part 4: Modernity
  • 12. Nineteenth-century poetry: romanticism and after
  • 13. Nineteenth-century fiction
  • 14. Jewishness and modernist fiction
  • 15. World literature and contemporary fiction
  • 16. Conclusion