Ernst Robert Curtius
Ernst Robert Curtius, born April 14, 1886 in Thann and died April 19, 1956 in Rome, is a German philologist, specialist in romance literature.
His main work is his study on the influence of Latin rhetoric and literature on Western literature: European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948). It supports the hypothesis that all European literatures use the same topoi, and that there is therefore a European cultural community around narrative elements that are both diachronic and synchronic.
Resources
Read: Ernst Robert Curtius, MARCEL PROUST
Ernst Robert Curtius, European literature and the Latin Middle Ages, by Stanislas Cieslik
Portrait of a cultural mediator: Ernst Robert Curtius, by André Gisselbrecht
The Reconstruction of the European Mind: T. S. Eliot’s Criterion and the Idea of Europe, by Jeroen Vanheste (where we talk about the journal Criterion)
The epistolary legacy of Ernst Robert Curtius, by Wold Dieter Lange
Ernst Robert Curtius, in Perseus
Ernst Robert Curtius, in Ebsco
Ernst Robert Curtius, Seminar, video
Correspondance : Ernst Robert Curtius & Jean Paulhan, 1930-1951
Bibliography of texts published in the NRF
The texts below, published in La Nouvelle Revue Française, are grouped into four main sets: texts by Ernst Robert Curtius, notes and columns by the author, texts about the author, and, when available, translations by the author.
Texts by Ernst Robert Curtius
- Abandon de la culture, 1931-12-01
Notes by Ernst Robert Curtius
These texts by Ernst Robert Curtius may include reading notes, mood notes, performance reviews, miscellaneous pieces, or previously unpublished texts. They appeared in NRF sections such as Chronique des romans, L'air du mois, Le temps comme il passe, etc., or in tribute issues.
- Sur Rimbaud, 1931-11-01, Correspondance
- Goethe ou Le classique allemand, 1932-03-01, Hommage à Goethe
Texts about Ernst Robert Curtius
These texts may include thematic studies about the author, correspondence, reading notes on works by or about the author, interviews conducted by the author, or works edited by the author.
- Ernst Robert Curtius, by Charles du Bos, 1930-11-01, articles
- Essai sur la France, par Ernst Robert Curtius (Grasset), by Ramon Fernandez, 1932-07-01, Notes : lettres étrangères
Chronological distribution of texts published in the NRF (1908-1968)
This chart shows the chronological distribution of texts across the four categories defined above: Texts, Notes, Translations, and Texts about the author.