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- Pettersson, Anders, 1946-, et al.
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Europe
- 2022
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Ingår i: Literature. - Chichester : John Wiley & Sons. - 9780470671900 - 9781119775751 - 9781119775737 ; , s. 596-669
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The chapter looks at Byzantine literature, Arabic literature in Europe, and literature in Latin. Then a series of sections are devoted to western European vernacular literature – the central, emergent European tradition. The chapter considers its early manifestations in drama, narrative poetry and prose, and lyric poetry. It moves on to traditions more peripheral during our period – to traditional Celtic and Germanic literature and to Slavic literature. The chapter describes some literary-sociological reflections concerning audiences, conditions of authorship, and text production, reflecting, among other things, on the importance of Johannes Gutenberg's invention of a new type of printing press toward the very end of our period. The cultures on the western, northern, and eastern fringes of Europe – Celtic, Germanic, Slavonic, and others – had poetic traditions of their own, but those were slowly being made obsolete by the new, Christian civilization spreading across all parts of Europe dominated by the Roman Catholic Church.
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