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Book Description: 2003. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 25th. 156mm x 34mm x 233mm. Paperback. 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 eruditio.Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. 616 pages. 0.853. Bookseller Inventory # 9780691113364

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Book Description: Princeton University Press, United States, 2003. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 25th ed. 234 x 156 mm. Brand New Book. 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. Bookseller Inventory # AAS9780691113364

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Book Description: Princeton University Press, 2003. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Bookseller Inventory # WP-9780691113364

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Book Description: Princeton University Press April 2003, 2003. Paper Back. Book Condition: New. This work is really two books in one: 1) an outline of the history of the Western literary tradition, in the form of commentary on key texts selected from Homer, the Bible, Tacitus, Martin of Tours, medieval mystery plays, Dante, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Goethe, Balzac, Flaubert, Virginia Woolf, and others, and 2) Auerbach's description of mimesis, or how the tradition has structured itself to ''represent reality,'' from the hierarchically layered levels of the classical period, to the biblical (and specifically incarnational) tendency to merge the sublime with the mundane, to the movement of modern realism with its complete casting aside of any hierarchy of meaning. Mimesis is simply literary criticism of the highest order, criticism in the classical mold which, while illuminating the text at issue, also ''sits at its feet'' and draws nourishment from it. Auerbach's comparison of Odysseus and Abraham, and his description of the radical yet unassuming originality of St. Mark's depiction of Peter's denial of Christ, are simply unforgettable. 563 pp. Bookseller Inventory # 89303

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Book Description: Princeton University Press. Paperback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, Erich Auerbach, Willard R. Trask, 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. Bookseller Inventory # B9780691113364

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