false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174490056m/406441.jpg 406441 1 <p>In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his <i>Mimesis</i>: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.</p> 395774 17 5 1993 Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages total:3|5:1|3:2| 3 11 6 0 0 0 false false Tue Aug 11 20:54:48 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 20:54:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Dec 01 21:18:31 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 01 21:18:33 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 23 12:28:02 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 23 12:28:02 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Feb 19 22:37:20 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 22:37:20 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Thu Mar 27 13:52:03 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 09 07:48:27 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 09 07:48:33 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Aug 15 14:15:02 -0700 2007 Wed Aug 15 14:15:02 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=406441