Mimesis the representation of reality in Western literature 1st edition by Erich Auerbach, Edward Said ISBN 0691160228 ‎ 978-0691160221

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ISBN 10: 0691160228
ISBN 13: ‎ 978-0691160221
Author: Erich Auerbach, Edward Said 

The classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depict reality has taught generations how to read Western literature.

A German Jew who was forced out of his professorship at the University of Marburg in 1935, Auerbach left for Turkey, where he taught in Istanbul. There he wrote Mimesis, publishing it in German after 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 modernity, literature progresses toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. Ranging over works in Greek, Latin, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and English, Auerbach uses his remarkable skills in philology and comparative literature to present an optimistic view of Western history and culture and to refute any narrow form of nationalism or chauvinism.

This expanded Princeton Classics edition of Mimesis includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics.

Mimesis the representation of reality in Western literature 1st Table of contents:

1. Odysseus’ Scar

2. Fortunata

3· The Arrest of Peter Valvomeres

4· 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

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