'Cleansing' the Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius and his Medievalist Turn
- Author / Editor
- Utz, Richard [J.]
'Cleansing' the Discipline: Ernst Robert Curtius and his Medievalist Turn
- Published
- Richard Utz and Tom Shippey, eds. Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 1998), pp. 359-78.
- Description
- Curtius sought to "cleanse" the study of medieval texts from emerging aesthetic and sociological readings by demonstrating the superiority of philological scholarship in his extensive review of Hans H. Glunz's study, "Die LiterarĐsthetik des EuropĐischen Mittelalters: Wolfram-Rosenroman-Chaucer-Dante" (1937).
- Contributor
- Shippey, Tom,ed.
- Alternative Title
- Medievalism in the Modern World: Essays in Honour of Leslie J. Workman.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.