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A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's "Mimesis" still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A ...Show synopsisA 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.Hide synopsis
Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature – Trade paperback
(2003)
by Erich Auerbach, Professor Willard R Trask (Translator), Professor Edward W Said (Introduction by)
Princeton University Press
25th ed.
ISBN: 069111336X
ISBN-13: 9780691113364
Description:Good. 498 p.; 18 cm. Doubleday Anchor Books A107.. General cover...Good. 498 p.; 18 cm. Doubleday Anchor Books A107.. General cover wear with evidence of sunning. Binding is completely intact. Interior pages are white and clean throughout. First two interior pages have bent corners.
Description:Very good. Softcover with front like pictured. Covers have...Very good. Softcover with front like pictured. Covers have slight rubbing wear. Pages are clean, unmarked by pen, pencil or marker, complete, undamaged with secure binding. Shipped in sturdy cardboard. Text in English, German. 563 p. 25 cm.
Description:Fair. Pages/page edges/covers marked/wavy due to contact with...Fair. Pages/page edges/covers marked/wavy due to contact with moisture/coffee, covers scuffed, corners bumped/scuffed, slightly worn edges, marks on pages/page edges.
Description:Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Mildly sunned, very...Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Mildly sunned, very minor edge-wear, book body clean and tight. translated by willard r. trask.
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Description:Fair. Has some writing/underlining. Mild shelf and edge wear;...Fair. Has some writing/underlining. Mild shelf and edge wear; pages are clean and unmarked. Moderate cover wear. Over 500, 000 Internet Orders FIlled.
Description:Fair. 498 pages. Softcover. Reading copy with scored spine and...Fair. 498 pages. Softcover. Reading copy with scored spine and pencil marks. LITERARY CRITICISM. A history of European literature from the Odyssey to Ulysses and shows a quiet mastery of all the literatures of the West. His examination includes Tacitus, Petronius, St. Augustine, St. Francis, Dante, Boccaccio, Rabelais, Montaigne, Saint-Simon, Goethe, Schiller, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert and Zola, among many others. Includes an Index. Translated from the German by Willard R. Trask. (Key Words: Literary Criticism, Erich Auerbach, Willard Trask, Reality, Western Literature, Western Culture, Emile Zola, Styles, Flaubert Gustave, Christ, Jesus, God).
