Mimesis : : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition / / Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said.
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Auerbach, Erich, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mimesis : The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition / Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013] ©2014 1 online resource (616 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Classics ; 78 Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE FIFTIETH-ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- MIMESIS -- 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 DEVOT -- 16. THE INTERRUPTED SUPPER -- 17. MILLER THE MUSICIAN -- 18. IN THE HOTEL DE LA MOLE -- 19. GERMINIE LACERTE UX -- 20. THE BROWN STOCKING -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: "EPILEGOMENA TO MIMESIS" -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 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. This Princeton Classics edition includes a substantial introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay in which Auerbach responds to his critics. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Literature History and criticism. Mimesis in literature. Reality in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature. bisacsh Said, Edward W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Trask, Willard R. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665925 print 9780691160221 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400847952?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400847952 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400847952.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION TO THE FIFTIETH-ANNIVERSARY EDITION -- MIMESIS -- 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 DEVOT -- 16. THE INTERRUPTED SUPPER -- 17. MILLER THE MUSICIAN -- 18. IN THE HOTEL DE LA MOLE -- 19. GERMINIE LACERTE UX -- 20. THE BROWN STOCKING -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX: "EPILEGOMENA TO MIMESIS" -- INDEX |
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