Comparative Criticism
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 16, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780521558440
Subjects: Literary studies: 19th century; Literary theory; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: In the first chapter of Studies in the History of the Renaissance Pater speaks of a Renaissance in France at the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century, 'a Renaissance within the limits of the middle age itself - a brilliant but in part abortive effort to do for human life and the human mind what was afterwards done in the fifteenth'.