Research Catalog

Title

Outline of comparative literature : from Dante Alighieri to Eugene O'Neill / by Werner P. Friederich with the collaboration of David Henry Malone.

Author

Friederich, Werner P. (Werner Paul), 1905-1993

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1954.

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Details

Description

451 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This book would be extended far beyond its envisaged scope if Antiquity, Christianity, and the Middle Ages were fully included. Ancient oriental influences upon the Mediterranean world or the exact nature of Greek contributions to Roman letters would seem to be quite beyond the pale of students interested essentially in modern literature. Yet, since the study of the interrelations of modern national literatures would be unthinkable without at least a brief consideration of their great and lasting indebtedness to Antiquity, the Orient and the formative centuries of Christianity, it has been deemed best to discuss this indebtedness up through the sixteenth century in these introductory pages. Such a preliminary treatment will allow us, in our later chapter on the Renaissance, to concentrate almost exclusively upon the great contributions of Italy-though in our outline of the international importance of Italian Humanism we naturally shall have ample occasion to come back to the Graeco-Roman inheritance of Modern Europe, just as later, when discussing the reverberations of the German Reformation, we shall refer again to some of the earlier Christian and Hebrew influences.

Series Statement

University of North Carolina studies in comparative literature, 11

Uniform Title

University of North Carolina studies in comparative literature ; no. 11.

Subject

• Comparative literature
• Literature > History and criticism
• comparative literature
• Comparative literature
• Literature
• Literature > History and criticism
• Littérature comparée

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The Renaissance -- The Baroque -- Classicism and Enlightenment -- Pre-Romanticism -- Romanticism -- Realism-Symbolism.

LCCN

55000477

OCLC

• ocm00506724
• 506724
• SCSB-116741

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library