Mimesis The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 50 anniversary Edition by Erich Auerbach 9780691113364 069111336X

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ISBN 10: 069111336X
ISBN 13: 9780691113364
Author: Erich Auerbach

A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics.

A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935. He left for Turkey, where he taught at the state university in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after the end of the war. Displaced as he was, Auerbach produced a work of great erudition that contains no footnotes, basing his arguments instead on searching, illuminating readings of key passages from his primary texts. His aim was to show how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This essentially optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive–and impassioned–response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach used his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism, in his own day and ours.

For many readers, both inside and outside the academy, Mimesis is among the finest works of literary criticism ever written.

Mimesis The Representation of Reality in Western Literature 50th Table of contents:

Introduction to the Fiftieth-Anniversary Edition
1. Odysseus’ Scar
2. Fortunata
3. The Arrest of Peter Valvomeres + Sicharius and Chramnesindus 5. Roland Against Ganelon
6. The Knight Sets Forth 7. Adam and Eve
8. Farinata and Cavalcante
9. Frate Alberto
10. Madame Du Chastel
11. The World in Pantagruel’s Mouth
12. L’Humaine Condition
13 The Weary Prince
14 The Enchanted Dulcinea
15 The Faux Dévot
16. The Interrupted Supper
17. Miller the Musician
18. In the Hôtel de la Mole
19. Germinie Lacerteux
20. The Brown Stocking
Epilogue
Appendix
Index

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