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Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature / by Erich Auerbach ; translated from the German by Willard R. Trask.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PN56.R3 A83 1968
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auerbach, Erich, 1892-1957.
- Series:
- Princeton paperbacks ; 124.
- Princeton paperbacks
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Reality in literature.
- Mimesis in literature.
- Literature--History and criticism.
- Literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 563 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- First Princeton paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1968.
- Contents:
- Odysseus' scar
- Fortunata
- The arrest of Peter Valvomeres
- Sicharius and Chramnesindus
- Roland against Ganelon
- The knight sets forth
- Adam and Eve
- Farinata and Cavalcante
- Frate Alberto
- Madame Du Chastel
- The world in Pantagruel's mouth
- L'Humaine Condition
- The weary prince
- The enchanted Dulcinea
- The faux dévot
- The interrupted supper
- Miller the musician
- In the Hôtel de la Mole
- Germinie Lacerteux
- The brown stocking.
- Notes:
- "Written in Istanbul between May 1942 and April 1945."
- Originally published: Berne, Switzerland : A. Francke Ltd. Co., 1946.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok March 1973".
- Potok Collection copy is "Second Printing, 1971" of 1st paperback edition.
- ISBN:
- 0691060789
- 0691012695
- OCLC:
- 37144594
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