MIMESIS by Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said, Willard R. Trask (Trans) ( 9780691160221 )

Item Details

Title:

MIMESIS
THE REPRESENTATION OF REALITY IN WESTERN LITERATURE

By:

Erich Auerbach, Edward W. Said, Willard R. Trask (Trans)

Format:

Paperback

List price:

£22.00

Our price:

£17.60

Discount:

20% off

You save:

£4.40

ISBN 10:

0691160228

ISBN 13:

9780691160221

Availability:

Usually dispatched within 3-5 days.

Delivery rates

Stock:

Currently 2 available

Publisher:

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

6 October, 2013

Edition:

New and Expanded

Series:

Princeton Classics

Pages:

616

Description:

Shows how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This title offers the optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive - and impassioned - response to the inhumanity he saw in the Third Reich.

Synopsis:

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.

Publication:

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Returns:

Returnable

Some other items by this author:

A HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS (PB)

ACTS OF AGGRESSION - 2ND EDITION (PB)

AFTER THE LAST SKY (PB)

BEGINNINGS (PB)

BLAMING THE VICTIMS (PB)

CONFRONTING EMPIRE (PB)