A History of Western Literature

From Medieval Epic to Modern Poetry

J.M. Cohen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

382 Seiten

2008
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
978-0-202-36185-7 (ISBN)

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This book begins in a narrow territory, strictly Western, and extends with the passage of time to include the poetry, plays, novels, and works of speculation of the great authors of the past and present, from Russia to Mexico. His objective is to tell the whole story of Western writing in languages other than English from the twelfth-century Chanson de Roland to Evtushenko's poetry of the 1960's.Cohen not only presents a factual account of historical growth. The book reflects the author's own judgments and valuations, arrived at in the course of almost forty years' reading in the main European languages. A work of original criticism, "A History of Western Literature" immediately became a standard reference when first published. In this new edition, the author has included revisions covering the most important recent writers and their work.

John M. Cohen (1903-1989) was a widely known critic and a translator of French and Spanish literature. He was born in London and graduated from Cambridge University. His versions of Don Quixote, Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Rousseau's Confessions are recognized as among the finest modern translations.

1: Epic Tales and Romances of Adventure; 2: The Theme of Courtly Love; 3: The Rebirth of Italy; 4: Mysticism, Mannerism, and Popular Poetry; 5: The Birth of the Drama; 6: The Later Italian Renaissance; 7: Reformation in Germany and Renaissance in France; 8: The Great Age of Spain and Portugal; 9: Italian Epic, Spanish Drama, and German Poetry; 10: The Great Age of France; 11: The Early Novel, The Reign of Reason, and The Birth of Sensibility; 12: Italian Revival and the Age of Goethe; 13: The Romantics; 14: The Novel in its Prime; 15: Poetry After the Romantics; 16: The Great Scandinavians and the Modern Theatre; 17: Novel Loses Focus, and a Hope for Poetry

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.7.2008
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-202-36185-3 / 0202361853
ISBN-13	978-0-202-36185-7 / 9780202361857
Zustand	Neuware